On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 10:18 -0400, James Laska wrote: > Greetings, > > Following up to Hans' earlier thread on reducing the number of screens > in the installer, I'd like to discuss reducing the supported > installation methods. Any proposals here might also need to be reviewed > in a larger product setting, but I'm curious how this group feels from a > development, maintenance and test perspective. > > Currently, in Fedora we test the following installation methods: > > 1. CD (multiple disc) > 2. DVD > 3. boot.iso + remote http repository > 4. boot.iso + remote NFS repository (not actively tested) > 5. Live install > 6. pxeboot + remote install.img and repo > 7. HD ISO install > 8. NFS install > 9. NFS ISO install > 10. HD install (not actively tested) I think I can make a better (and more dire) diagram. Methods to get packages: 1) Media 2) Split Media 3) HD Iso 4) Http 5) ftp 6) NFS 7) NFS Iso Methods to boot: 1) boot.iso 2) Media 3) Split Media 4) vmlinux+initrd via pxe 5) vmlinux+initrd via grub 6) vmlinux+initrd va <insert boot loader here> Then take all of the methods of booting, and combine them with the methods of installing, and you've got a ton of different combinations. > > Are there additional supported installation paths that I missed? > > Do we really *need* all of these? From a test perspective, this does > offer challenges. I'm not listing all the command-line permutations > where the boot media, install.img and package repositories are all in > different locations. Some suggestions ... > > 1. Do we need support for *multiple* remote installation methods > (http, ftp, nfs, nfsiso) ... why not just HTTP (sure, libcurl > offers more, but HTTP would be documented and supported)? > 2. Are HD installs still valuable to users and customers of distros > that rely on the anaconda installer (preupgrade)? > 3. Are HD ISO installs still valuable? > 4. boot.iso, a boot CD, a boot DVD and a bootable Live image. Is > there some way to combine these 4 boot images. Do we need all > of them? What about only providing a Live image only -- perhaps > more of a question for respective product teams (RHEL, Fedora). > > Thanks, > James > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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