Re: Server installation over the network
Anshuman Aggarwal <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:03:26 +0530
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I have started pruning the PackageNames.txt file for a server install. Can we split this file into a say ServerPackageNames.txt and append the GUIPackageNames.txt and the ISO build script can be given an option to make either one? This will allow us to keep server and gui ISO builds around without double maintenance? Regards Anshuman On 10 April 2017 at 18:38, Lucas C. Villa Real <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Anshuman Aggarwal > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 >> > > GoboALFS will just automate the build process. However, it will let you > select which packages you want to see featured on the ISO, so you should be > able to keep the ISO at a bare minimum set of utilities. A network based > installer would demand the creation of a brand new installer utility. > > An alternative would be to get the existing ISO and remove the .squashfs > files that you don't care about. You may also prune some entries from the > .squashfs files (although that will require the creation of new squashfs > images, given that squashfs is a read-only filesystem). In the end you will > end up with a pile of broken links on /System/Settings and /System/Index, > but those can be easily removed with our RemoveBroken script. > > Best regards, > Lucas > > > _______________________________________________ > gobolinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users > _______________________________________________ gobolinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users