On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Troy Dawson wrote:

> The Scientific Linux developers are pleased to announce our "Very Alpha 
> Release" of Scientific Linux 5.0

This looks very promising. Great job.

Kickstart installation worked. The installation as well as the resulting 
system seem to behave just like EL5beta2.

[...]

> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /Client /Server /VT /Workstation /Cluster /ClusterStorage
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> TUVv5b2 consists of 2 cd sets,  Server and Client.  Each cd set has a group 
> of directories which contain the actual rpms.  On the Client cd this consists 
> of Client,Workstation and VT.  On the Server cd this consists of Server,VT, 
> Cluster, ClusterStorage.  The VT directory contains the same rpms on each cd.
> The Cluster, ClusterStorage and Workstation directories do not have any 
> common rpms. The Client and Server directories contain many common rpms along 
> with many unique rpms.  I have combined the 2 cd sets into 1 big tree.  If a 
> rpm is in multiple directories I have made it via a hard link to save disk 
> space
>
> We are not sure if we will keep this big tree of directories or not.  It has 
> the advantage as having the same tree structure as RHELv5b2.

Now why would that be an advantage ;-) Maybe I just don't like it because 
it's unfamiliar. Still, I don't like it.

> To install the rpms in /VT /Workstation /Cluster /ClusterStorage you
> need to enter V for VT and W for Workstation and C for Cluster and S for
> ClustorStorage at the "key" prompt in the installer.  This is code from
> TUVv5b2.  It will be changed in our next beta.
> So to install all of these you would put in
>
> VWCS
>
> at the "keys" prompt

Hasn't this changed with beta2 and you now need an "installation number"?

NB here's how I do unintended ks installs:

   key --skip
   repo --name=SL5 --baseurl=http://.../SL/5rolling/i386/SL/RPMS
   %packages --resolvedeps
   @core
   autofs
   ...

Where I've 'cp -al'd all RPMS into  SL/RPMS and ran createrepo there.

Cheers,
 	Stephan


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