On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 16:02 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:32 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > >>Jeremy Katz wrote: > >>>On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 08:54 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > >>>>Ah yes, but my proposal allows booting a standard > >>>>just-bought-from-redhat CD and booting it, automatically fetching a ks > >>>>file if Anaconda can find one, without one needing to specify its > >>>>existance in any syslinux, yaboot or other boot tool's config file. > >>> > >>>Unfortunately, this would not be the desired behavior of other people. > >>>So as it stands, we're going to stick to requiring the kickstart config > >>>to be specified. > >> > >>What problems do you see? > > > > > > A lot of PXE setups are set up such that the filename of pxelinux is > > always given out. So by always following that, we'd end up grabbing a > > garbage file which could then end up having less than desired effects. > > I've already dealt with that one: Anaconda should recognize a pxelinux > file (or other binary for that matter) and silently ignore ot. The silent ignoring is actually something that is causing lots of grief -- people want to know about the failure. While looking on tty3 is great for local installs, it's less useful on hardware that doesn't have a physical console. > > While the class based and dhcp identifier stuff is nice, I'd venture a > > guess that most people aren't actually using it and I'm sure there are a > > number of commonly used dhcp servers out there that really don't support > > it. > > They don't _have_ to use it if Anaconda supports it. If Anaconda > supports it, they _can_ use it. > > AFAIK RH/Fedora only documents network installs from RH/Fedora servers, > and those have ISC DHCPD 3 so there's no problem there. DHCPD 3 also > ships with Debian, another considerable base of Linux users, so those > don't have a problem either. It's nearly impossible to document things we don't ship. But that hardly means they're the only things that a) people use or b) we support. If I only had to deal with homogeneous environments, my life would definitely be much simpler :-) Jeremy
