Hello List, The company I work for has a need to be able to install Fedora onto several different hardware configurations via a USB thumb drive. As far as I can currently tell, the only way to install via a thumb drive is to treat it like a hard drive and tell Anaconda which device it is. We would like to see something like the "cdrom" install method, where we would just say "flash" in the kickstart and kernel options, and then Anaconda would take care of the rest. I have been looking into this for the past few days and have begun to modify the source accordingly. I am adding a flashinstall.c module to the loader, and the next step would be to modify the python code of Anaconda proper. Once the loader is ready to pass things off to Anaconda, there are two ways (as I see it) to proceed. Anaconda itself, like the loader, can be modified to find the flash device and install from there, or the loader can just modify the kickstart file when it is installing it into /tmp/ks.cfg. In the latter case, it would create an hd: entry so that when Anaconda takes over, it would just pretend it was installing from a normal hard drive. That method is a little more straightforward, having fewer new code paths to maintain, but nothing else seems to do anything like that. Does anybody have any thoughts about the best way to do this? Also, once it is done and working, is this something that the community would be interested in having? I would love to see this go into the upstream Anaconda source so that others can use it. Either way, the source code will be available should anybody care to peruse it. Thank you for your time in responding. Sincerely, Jason Maestri -- Jason C. Maestri Senior Software Engineer Solera Networks O (801) 623.5192 C (801) 867.7654 http://www.soleranetworks.com The information in this e-mail and in any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems and notify the sender immediately. You should not retain copy or use this e-mail for any purpose, nor disclose all or any part of its content to any other person. _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
