Re: Server installation over the network

Hi Lucas,
 Can the GoboALFS project be used for this or is that only for
building releases? In either case, be better build something with more
utility to the community than a simple pruned ISO which would be a
very brittle solution.

haven't dived into the ALFS yet but it may be able to allow creation
of a network based installer? or at least build a minimal install
without the GUI packages (using the text version of the installer)?

Thanks
Anshuman

On 9 April 2017 at 22:11, Lucas C. Villa Real <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Anshuman Aggarwal
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>  I think Gobo would be great as a server distro even more so than a
>> GUI distro since that typically requires a lot of driver support, end
>> user packages and general integration to make it truly useful. Hats
>> off to the core team that is already able to do that on a daily basis
>> and I do hope to join them some day, but till then...
>>
>> Is there a way I could install gobolinux on a virtual server (like
>> Linode) without having to download the whole ISO? Like gentoo via a
>> small boot loading kernel and download the rest of the packages
>> online? This way we won't have to install all the GUI packages which
>> the ISO includes nor have to upload them to the virtual container
>> host.
>
>
> Hi Anshuman,
>
> We don't have support for that kind of installation right now. We have been
> wanting to experiment with distributed file systems on the ISO, so maybe we
> will see something in that direction on 017. One alternative would be to
> install the ISO on a local VM, do the pruning and transfer its disk image
> over the network to your virtual server.
>
> Thanks,
> Lucas
>
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