On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 16:46 +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: > On 08/06/2013 04:22 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > I agree a fully offline install method is needed. > I think we are in substantial agreement. > > My model is that the deployment has someone with technical skills > available who > prepares the server for installation. However, at the deployment, the > server should > be stable enough to operate through a school year without hands-on system > administration (except when the server hardware fails). >
Full agreement with that, except for perhaps performance tuning that might crop up with user demands. > The community can provide the, probably volunteer, system administrator > with > a base system and a pantry of appropriate ingredients to tailor for a > specific > deployment without requiring the admin to give up his day job. > > It is perfectly feasible to install the school server from a usb drive. Yes, I'm one of original driving forces behind that. > > It is the build that > currently requires internet access. Yup I agree, that is where the repos live unless you have created a local mirror for pungi to use offline. The pungi tool has been updated/replaced by lorax in the newer Fedora versions. > The install at the moment requires a > monitor, > usb wired keyboard, and a usb wired mouse. Think a vnc based anaconda(the installer) install might be do-able also, to access the target machine not to retrieve rpms. > These are not required after the > install. By the way, the repositories need for an XS-0.7 build don't > come close to > fitting on a DVD. > Just need access to the internet or local mirror to let pungi do its magic gathering the needed rpms and creating the anaconda installer. Jerry _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel