On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:28:00AM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello Haifuxers, and also the rest of you. > > This is mostly intended for those who can't be reached via Haifux' > mailing list, but really not only. > > The Haifux W2L planning meetings are well-known for their distro fights. > I want you to think about a different direction: A Haifux distro. And I > mean one that will be easy to prepare. > > The process is as follows: We install some Linux on a computer. The > computer is then fine-tuned to handle local issues well (ADSL/cable > connections, Hebrew on several applications etc). In short, we play with > the computer until it's exactly like we want it. > > Then we tar-gzip the entire filesystem, and put it on discs. > > The installation will now consist of booting a rescue disc, creating the > partitions, make filesystems and untar from the discs. After that we > modify /etc/fstab and set up a boot loader. And boot. And then we have > the really interesting part: Setting up hardware, X-windows and so > forth. But we do it with a kicking linux system at hand, which IMHO is > much better than some installation script. > > The advantages: > 1. Good chances to supply our newbies with a system that works smoothly > and includes the latest patches.
A custom distro CD updated to the latest patches. Alternatively, install those patches as apart of the installation procedure. > 2. Possible to spread features that are not currently trivial to install > (Hebrew fonts, for example). > 3. Israeli projects, such as HSpell and Syscalltrack can be packed in. This can be done by a custom distro CD > 4. Easy to respond to newbie questions, since we know the exact setting. Ditto for the installer's favorite distro. > 5. Possible to add packages that are not distributed in mainstream See (3) > distributions (especially in the multimedia field). > 6. Installers work on solving problems instead of gazing at a progress bar. Is that an atvantage or a disatvantage? ;-) > > Possible disadvantages: > 1. No personal choice. (But since we always install "everything" on > insta-parties, how much choice do we have?) > 2. Not the well-known intallation process (read: doesn't look like MS-Win). [And a number of other problems Olg mentioned below] -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
