On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 02:33 +0000, J.H. wrote: > I don't entirely agree with removing the installation option from the > live media, I think it actually would be a bad idea. > > The issue at hand seems to be one where there are, effectively, two > different installers being supported (one from the live image, and the > more normal anaconda route). Why not simplify this some? > > On the live image have the "install" option do nothing more than execute > a kexec (with an appropriate we will be leaving the live realm and > entering the installer, you can't switch back and forth, etc preamble) > to a safe install medium, likely the anaconda network installer to save > space. This is a really interesting idea. Is there a way to enable an install without internet connection though? Is it a problem if not? I'm not sure - you need an internet connection to download the ISO in the first place so maybe not. (It might be a problem to hand something like this out at shows or thru the free media project though? Maybe?) > This would, I think, keep both sides of this situation happy. It still > uses the proper anaconda installer, while preserving the ability to > opportunistically let people install from the live image should they want. I like it, what do the installer team folks think? > And if the live images had boot from iscsi support you could run the > whole thing, end to end, from the internet - but I'll admit I can't > figure out who's in charge of the live images to get that support added > in (which I'd happily do the patches for). I'm not sure either, sadly :( ~m _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
