Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:59:41PM +0200, Jon Tegner wrote: > Robert G. Brown wrote: >> Fedora installs in the future will be done by yum. Yum enables >> something that is truly marvelous for people who have to install through >> thin pipes (e.g. DSL links): a two stage interruptable install. It is >> possible to install a barebones system in the first pass in a relatively >> short period of time and have it come up on the second boot and run yum >> to complete the rest of the install. Yum is robust, more or less, > Use a Debian netinst CD - 118MB or so. That installs a base system and you can then reboot. It's about six questions or so using the "expert" install - and that includes setting up users.
> Agree. This two stage install is the logical step. After the first step, > the second could well be controlled by a "package-file" where the desired > packages are listed, and all dependencies are taken care of by yum/apt. If > a package name is later added or removed in that file, a cron-job could see > to that it is removed from or added to the system. Would be easy to keep a > lot of boxes in sync this way. You mean "dpkg --get-selections >> myselectionsfile" from one box and "dpkg --set-selections < myselectionsfile" on the other? This works even where the machines are different architectures - I was able to do this where one was an AMD64 and one was a Sparc with minimal changes. [There is also an equivalent which will preseed the debconf answers but I can't remember that off the top of my head] If you want a full system once you're done including X Windows and CD/DVD burning and the ability to add modules for firmware etc. "aptitude install kde xserver-xorg kdm k3b build-essential module-assistant" Disclaimer: I can claim to have _named_ apt :) Andy _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
