Part of my goal for our customized local anaconda is to speed up the
installation for admins here. One of the things I do is prefill a lot of
data, but I also skip steps which seem, for various reasons, unnecessary.
One of these is the "welcome" screen -- the first one that displays when
stage2 (anaconda proper) starts. I figure, we already saw the boot splash
screen, and a couple of screens in the text mode loader -- why bother people
with another 'welcome' now when we could just get right to it.
So, I do this:
diff -ur anaconda-8.0.94.orig/anaconda anaconda-8.0.94/anaconda
--- anaconda-8.0.94.orig/anaconda 2003-01-30 17:48:01.000000000 -0500
+++ anaconda-8.0.94/anaconda 2003-02-14 14:14:48.000000000 -0500
@@ -706,6 +706,8 @@
dispatch = dispatch.Dispatcher(intf, id, methodobj, rootPath)
+dispatch.skipStep("welcome", permanent = 1)
+
if lang:
dispatch.skipStep("language", permanent = 1)
instClass.setLanguage(id, lang)
This works great, but with Fedora Core, presents a little problem: the
"Back" button on the next step (either installtype or findinstall, depending
on the situation) isn't getting properly greyed out -- and if you hit it,
bam, there's a crash.
What am I supposed to be doing to avoid that?
Thanks!
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Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
