From: Anders Johansson (andjoh_at_rydsbo.net)
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 00:07:52 CEST
From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@rydsbo.net> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 00:07:52 +0200 Message-Id: <200507070007.52970.andjoh@rydsbo.net> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] online software source media
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 23:33, Martino Piccinato wrote:
> I have a single server housed in a server farm (and even if I had more
> servers housed there I wouldn't like to use one as an installation
> server...). I don't want to go there with my CDs everytime I've to
> install the smallest package.
What I normally do in that case is set my desktop workstation up as an
installation server by exporting my dvd/cd mount point as an nfs share (ftp
or http is also possible, if that suits you better) and use that as a YaST
installation source
>
> I disagree that you must have a ery good internet connection:
For a single machine perhaps not. I was talking about multiple servers,
because that's what the OP mentioned. The more machines you have, the less
interesting an online installation source becomes. For the single server
scenario, the above has worked well for me, even across the internet to
remote sites
> I'm still quite surprised that a free (as in beer and as in speech)
> distribution as debian can provide such a service (I've used it for many
> years with great profit and without wasting too much bandwidth) while
> SUSE/NOVELL can't provide such a thing to their customers.
Debian doesn't provide it, they would never be able to afford it in a million
years. They are a 501(c) non-profit organisation and rely entirely (as far as
I know) on charity. They have some bandwidth, but not nearly enough to cover
the demand.
They can get away with it because they get distribution from schools and other
institutions for free, which is possible because they are free, not despite
it.
SUSE Professional has been distributed this way for as long as I've been using
it, and it still is, because it too is free. The funny thing being that
they've always been criticised for doing it (they really have, browse through
the mailing list archives around the time of each new release, people have
always requested ISO images).
Of course it could be provided by Novell. But I don't believe there is a great
demand from customers. Novell is a commercial company, and if customers
request something then obviously there will be a response. I just don't
believe there is a great demand. Especially not for large installations
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