On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 01:21 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > I just installed F7 t3 and I wrote down all the issues and some > comments regarding anaconda. Thanks for the feedback. > == On the LiveCD == > > * Can't close livecdinst without rebooting > > It asks if it's OK even if it's experimental, I choose to exit, then I > get: Reboot, Cancel. I don't want to reboot, so I Cancel, and I get > back to the original screen. > > Clicking the X in the window manager thing doesn't work either. Clicking the X should work post-test3. Could you file something about changing the text so that we don't ask for a reboot to instead something like close? Note that it really won't reboot; just anaconda will exit and in the normal install path, that means a reboot. > == In general == > > * Sometimes the GRUB dialog appear, sometimes not Which dialog in particular here? > * The netinstall with ftp doesn't work, with http is fine I know you already filed this and it's on the list of things to look at. > == From USB key (diskboot.img) == > > * Anaconda asks twice to ignore the USB key device (/dev/sdb) We should probably only ask once, but there's some crufty code paths here that I don't think are likely to get resolution in the F7 timeframe. And for F8, we're hoping to significantly overhaul partitioning to try to address some of the things like this. > * It appears anyway as the main device to install to This is because your BIOS says that it's the boot device (which it was...). We're in a bit of a rock and a hard place here, which is why we've tried to expose a little better the ability to select where you really want to be booting from ... > * If I uncheck it from the list, it's still the main device This is expected; the two aren't really tied together. I guess they could be, but it's not that unreasonable to want to install to, eg, your USB hard drive but still have the bootable part be the internal hard drive. > * Even if I uncheck it, and select another device as main, the GRUB > dialog still marks it as the device to install to, and the dropdown > box is disabled Which grub dialog is this? But this definitely sounds like a real bug. Could you file it in bugzilla so it doesn't get lost? > * If I go back, GRUB is installed on /dev/sdb anyway, and now the > screen with the devices has nothing on the dropdown for the main > device, and clicking next crashes anaconda: > > (snipped) > /iw/autopart_type.py, line 73, in getNext > /gui.py, line 1034, in nextClicked > TypeError: iter must be a GtkTreeIter Go back to which screen? The initial auto-partitioning screen? Could you also file this one. > That's about it. Also it should be great to be able to just run the > GRUB part, because GRUB is now installed on my USB key instead of my > internal hd =/ There's an open bug regarding wanting to make some common tasks like this more accessible to rescue mode. A quick query isn't finding it right now... but basically, I'd like to see things move to where we have some simple stubs so that instead of just rescue mode dropping you to a shell, you can have a set of options. One of them is obviously "reinstall boot loader". It shouldn't be that hard to code up and would be a pretty easy way for getting started working on anaconda. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/RescueMode has a few more details Thanks for all the comments! Jeremy
