>On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:24:49PM -0500, greg wrote: >> so the big question in my head is, if i go with debian, will i regret it >> in the long run, just because i wanted to do funky remote restalls. "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix at techmonkeys.org> wrote: >I'm still regretting the day I heard about debian, but personal grudges >aside.. You may want to look into the RedHat/Fedora offerings, kickstart >installs (remote or local) are damned nifty without any debian hackery >(ie, it's built into the installer, not something someone hacked in), you >also have the option of an attended remote install where you can netboot >the system then install via VNC. >I personally have a setup where I can plug in and netboot any system with >a full installation done in 15 minutes without any remote hands necessary, >it's /very/ nifty and caused no headaches or loss of hair. The systems I'm >netbooting have no CD-ROM or floppy drives, and pulling each one apart to >hook up a second drive for imaging would be a waste of my time. I recently did a Fedora Core 2 install via ftp. Very nice. However, later when I used a GUI to add a package I didn't initially install, anaconda asks for CD #3? I did an ftp install! I don't have any Fedora Core 2 CDs! ftp installs of SuSE and Debian handle this situation by installing the requested distribution packages and any packages in the dependency graph. Why does Fedora Core 2 ask for "non-existent" CDs to add packages to an ftp install? Simply put, the default media for an ftp install should be the original ftp server, certainly not CDs! Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list