On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 07:39 -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > Hi Vratisvav > > I am an old IT person with 50 years of IT development experience, and > 10 years with enjoying the use of Fedora. I agree with all your > comments. May I offer some of my comments? > The DVD or flash drive contents could be copied to disk, where there > is ample disk space. This allows the installation to work from that > disk. Please consider that faster devices (SSDs are coming), so this > idea should be seriously considered. I am, of course, not considering > the live Images for Fedora21. Why? This involves transferring the whole contents of the install media to disk, taking a lot of time and wasting space. A typical install from DVD does not involve transferring the entire contents at present. This would make installations slower and waste space unnecessarily. > > Another thought, Anaconda should be a stub that picks up the very > latest Anaconda version from the ISO image. As far as I (mis)read, > anaconda is one version behind the version that is provided within the > ISO file. Picking up that later image would be possible if the image > was written to disk. You have misunderstood this. The anaconda version used for installation is the same version present as a package on the DVD image. > Future: > Could one not develop an executable stub that reads the iso image, and > does not force the user to download and subsequently convert that > 3.5gig image to a bootable DVD or flashdrive? This has been working for years. You can write boot.iso/netinst.iso and have it use packages from a copy of DVD ISO file stored on a USB stick, or a network share, or a hard disk other than the one(s) to which you wish to install the system. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options#repo -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
