On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 14:57 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 13:50 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote: > >> After having fully grokked the livecd-creator code, it occurs to me that it may > >> not be such a completely crazy idea to bring full package selection and even > >> kickstart support to the livecd installer. > >> > >> The main constraint of course is having access to the 'core' or full repo, > >> either via network or existing disk filesystem. > > > > As it stands now, you can pretty much already say "install from here > > rather than doing the live image" and things work. The liveinst script > > just kind of hides that from you. Once I get repo selection within > > anaconda itself a little cleaned up (on my todo list for the next week > > or so), it becomes a lot more feasible to export that for others to > > use. > > > > Kickstart should pretty much already be able to work" > > Yeah, what I was saying would lessen the impact on pulling stuff from the > network and installing stuff. But it wasn't really occurring to me that you can > use anaconda+network+kickstart as is already. > > I suppose a minor addition, (if it's not there already), would be to invoke > anaconda automatically if ks= is on the kernel commandline. So that you get > behaviour comparable to the traditional installation media. Yeah. This could be done from the livecd initscript I guess. I'm not sold one way or another. If someone really cares, I'll probably do it. Else, it'll probably stay as it is :-) > >> The key aspect of feasibility I see, is how similar the task would be to the > >> existing livecd-creator base-on-iso code path. I.e. that code path already > >> takes as input, a livecd type installation, and then effectively applies a > >> kickstart configuration to it. > > > > I don't know that the base-on bits are really that interesting... more > > that you either want to > > a) make changes after the system is installed > > b) if you made changes to the live image, have them preserved on the > > install > That's pretty much just a matter of using /dev/mapper/live-rw rather than > /dev/live-osimg (and unfutzing things like /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live) The latter being the hard part unless you require the initscript to be "undoable" :-/ Jeremy
