Am 24.01.2022 um 20:20 schrieb Neal Gompa
<ngompa13(a)gmail.com>:
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 1:46 PM Peter Boy <pboy(a)uni-bremen.de> wrote:
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>> Am 24.01.2022 um 18:42 schrieb Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com>:
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>> cc: anaconda-devel@
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>> From today's Fedora QA minutes
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https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2022-01-24/fedora-qa.202...
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>> 16:20:54 <pboy> I'll test that again, but I'm sure, if you use
>> everything DVD you get the wrong preconfiguration. We had a thread
>> about that on server list.
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>> I'm not finding this thread. But Adamw surely knows the history of
>> Everything ISO better than I do. My fuzzy memory is that it's sort of
>> a side effect of how images are made and it's kept around as a catch
>> all. It's the only way to do a netinstall for any of the desktops. The
>> default package set is for a minimal install, a.k.a. Fedora Custom.
>> The idea is to make it straightforward to get a minimum bootable
>> system and then use dnf to build it up from there.
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>> Just for context, "Everything ISO" e.g.
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https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-2022012...
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>> This image defines "automatic" partitioning as btrfs. It's
intrinsic
>> to the image itself what the partitioning defaults to. It's not a
>> function of the package set, i.e. choosing the Server package set
>> doesn't get you Server's default partitioning. It's a little
>> confusing, but it's working as designed, insofar as it has one.
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>> I cc'd Anaconda folks, because I'm not sure exactly where the
>> "autopart" kickstart command gets defined these days. And also whether
>> it's worth the effort to make autopart variable based on what edition
>> or spin is selected in the Everything netinstaller? I'm not sure that
>> it is.
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> Chris,
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> if I remember correctly, wasn’t it you who informed me (about a year ago in the
context of F32/33) that booting from everything DVD and select „Fedora Server“ does not
result in an identical installation as booting from Server DVD and selecting „Fedora
Server“? (when I wondered about the installation on a rented remote hardware where only
„Everything“ was available).
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That's a different case. That's referring to the package collection.
The Everything ISO has the base Fedora "profile" that most variants
use (which uses Btrfs). But it also doesn't select Fedora Server by
default and is explicitly designed "for experts", The Fedora Server
netinstall ISO uses the Fedora Server "profile" and will use the
Fedora Server settings by default, including using LVM+XFS.
Think of the Everything ISO as something that an Arch convert would
use, while the Fedora Server netinstall ISO would be something that a
sysadmin doing server deployments from a central repo mirror would
use.
Thanks for the clarification. I read it as: If I boot the Server netboot DVD I get the
Server profile, regardless of the source from which the individual packages are
downloaded. And the „Installation Source“ is just for download all the needed rpms.
So it must have been something messed up in my test environment. It is not yet in a state
where I would like it to be.
Thanks
Peter