On 03/14/2016 11:02 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
On Monday, March 14, 2016 10:42:35 AM CDT Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On 03/14/2016 10:37 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:04:23AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>>> 2) Default guided partitioning scheme
>>> Chris Murphy raised some excellent questions about how we might lay out
>>> the
>>> default partitioning scheme of Fedora Server. Currently, the default
>>> layout is pretty much what it was in the pre-Fedora.next period, which
>>> means that it's basically three partitions; an up to 50GB / (root)
>>> partition, a swap partition based on available RAM and a /home partition
>>> with all the remaining space. This is a layout that makes a lot of sense
>>> for a Workstation installation, but perhaps not as much for a Server
>>> installation.
>>
>> This is a great example of the kind of change that _having_ a separate
>> Fedora Server makes possible. It's nothing dramatic, but it's easy to
>> make a change for this use case without needing to worry about also
>> accomodating desktop needs, and Workstation (and spins) can have
>> sensible desktop defaults without needing to worry about what server
>> storage looks like. \o/
>
> Yes, although as I think about it, we also need to be aware of the secondary
> effects of changing this:
>
> Anyone who is using the Fedora Server netinstall is going to have this as
> their default layout; regardless of what environment they select. This
> suggests that Workstation may well want to offer a separate netinstall ISO
> in addition to their Live media.
You do realise that they do that already right?
there is a Workstation netinstall tree, a cloud netinstall tree and the server
tree, Everything also has a netinstall tree, which doubles as a generic
installer.
Oh, for some reason I was under the impression that this hadn't actually
happened. So that's good.
It still makes the "Minimal" case a little odd, because if we allow installing
the minimal environment from Server media, people will end up with the Server
default layout (unless they customize it, of course). But that's probably okay.