On Monday 12 August 2002 11:15 pm, Leon Brooks wrote: <snips> minimal install cd1 with base file system that has rpm database of what is "rpm -ivh'd in advance into the base file system so it is rpm -Uvh-able"...
> If I did it that way (or the following way), I'd install a minimal amount > of RPM information on/from the CD and nice -19 rebuild the indexes and > stuff after the install. rpm verify perhaps. The base file system should be "binary" diff match with what is on the cd. Either it worked or it didn't. There should be no rebuild stuff. Granted, some things would HAVE to be put on via RPM, but not the whole dang thing that is common everywhere, and only where differences warrant... which X, which video, scsi, no scsi, which additional kernel, etc., Extreme difference can happen via rpm --erase... ;) Easier to destroy than to create... <snip> nice'd rpm install of everything else in the background Hmn... > Maybe it also caches reads from the CD onto the HDD so that as you pull > your most-used stuff off the CD in the course of actually using it, it > makes it to the HDD and doesn't need re-reading next time. Not enough detail to know "why" exactly... kinda sounds a little like sorcerer... which I enjoy using, but has its own set of problems... Not that it is a bad idea... It's not what you do... but how you do it... > Knoppix is already useful for offices wherein the entire place has been > trashed with a virus. If Mandrake could install this way, you could walk in > with a Mandrake CD and have people up and running within minutes, and > permanently Mandrake'd within the hour. Market study. How likely, how much market share will this gain vs. will it loose any ? What is the cost justification ? "What cost, it is open source !" ? > This could be done as a separate project to the `standard' Mandrake CD > sets, released a month or two after 9.0, and take the world by storm. What exactly ? The idea about fixing up a whole virus nailed network ? Or the "distribution server" ? > Additional wishlist items: > > * Ability to configure a single workstation and use its RPM selection > for all following. There is supposed to be a create a floppy thing. I think I tried it before and I think it worked. Floppy has the package selection so when you boot up another install cd on another machine, put the floppy in, you just walk away and come back later... ? You mean this, but from sort of "network registry" / "install/update server" ? > Imagery: power up virussed Windows box. 30 seconds later it is a > working Mandrake machine. Walk to next machine, power it up. By the > time you've powered up the 20th machine, the first is a fully > installed standalone workstation. So earlier you meant actually boot and actually RUN from CD until the HDD is complete... ? Heh... are you a systems/software architect too ? We're on the save wamelength methinks... There would need to be either a selection mechanism what to boot to support what wildly different hardware, or a few different CD1 images... > How say you? The perfect time to bring this up? <G/D/R> I don't know when is a good time to bring up stuff like this... Better to do it and beg forgiveness... I hope... -AEF
