Quick poll

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> <IMHO>
> Text mode install is the only sane option.
> But I think you're nuts or masochistic or something for going thru all the
> uber complexity of attempting a network install. Pop in the one CD, click
> thru the text installer, reboot and move on to the next project.
> </IMHO>

Would you want to go through that routine 30 times in a row?  How about 500?

Most large organizations depend on the ability to net-install an OS in
a 100% automated fashion.  Paying someone (even if its minimum wage)
to feed CD's into hundreds of systems is a waste of time & resources.

One of the test environments that I run at $dayjob is a 100% automated
(kickstart) mechanism for installing 8 different Linux distributions
across 9 systems, followed by the 100% automated setup of the test
harness, followed by the 100% automated test run, and then starting
the entire process all over again.  I never touch the HW at all.

>
>> I'm afraid I fail to see the sense behind installing servers with X.
>> I also see little sense in burning a DVD just to throw it away after 1
>> install and d/l a newer one 2 weeks later for another install.
>
> This topic comes up about once a month on the ubuntu-server list. The
> conclusion is always the same...

It has also come up on the Fedora dev list quite a few times.


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