Re: [CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread zep
On 09/06/2014 02:57 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/6/2014 11:06 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> > and my experience is, kickstart installs off a reasonably fast NFS > server over gigE are /way/ faster than CDROM/DVDROM installs. > which totally makes sense (stolen from wikipedia): CD, DVD and Blu-ra

Re: [CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sat, September 6, 2014 1:57 pm, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/6/2014 11:06 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> Luckily, there is nice equivalent of what you would like standard >> Desktop >> installation would be, or anything else which you can tweak to your >> needs >> once and then install that tweake

Re: [CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/6/2014 11:06 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Luckily, there is nice equivalent of what you would like standard Desktop installation would be, or anything else which you can tweak to your needs once and then install that tweaked system with one go on as many boxes as you wish. It is called "kicksta

Re: [CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
FreeBSD base system is installed similarly to what you suggest: just by unpacking a few tgz files containing it. This, however, only comprises base system; the rest necessary for workstation (such as Xwindow system, office suites, etc) are to be added separately. However, once the system is instal

Re: [CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread Andrew Holway
On 6 September 2014 17:46, Gergely Buday wrote: > Hi there, > > I installed centos 7 -- it works great. > > What made me think is that installation took 1300 packages for a Desktop > with some add-ons. > > As usual, there might be a solution for this already but I do not know it. > Would it be po

Re: [CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread Gergely Buday
oh Harald, you did not change at all since I saw you last time On 6 September 2014 18:52, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 06.09.2014 um 18:46 schrieb Gergely Buday: > > I installed centos 7 -- it works great. > > > > What made me think is that installation took 1300 packages for a Desktop > > wit

[CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread Gergely Buday
Hi there, I installed centos 7 -- it works great. What made me think is that installation took 1300 packages for a Desktop with some add-ons. As usual, there might be a solution for this already but I do not know it. Would it be possible to create one big package for a standard Desktop? Then an