No one has a better idea? On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Vladimir Benes recently told me about the issue of express > installation and net ISOs of Fedora in Boxes. There are two issues > with this: > > 1. Internet is required w/o script communicating this requirement to App. > 2. Some remote repositories need to be setup, otherwise installer > waits for user to manually set them up. > > I thought of some solutions but none without any issues: > > 1. a. Add 'needs-internet' to media entries > b. Pass media info to script generation functions. > c. Modify fedora script to add required repos if 'needs-internet' > > This would be my first choice but how can we implement (b) w/o breaking API. > > 2. a. Add 'internet-available' param to InstallConfig > b. Modify fedora script to add required repos if 'internet-available' > > This would add to the work of App as they'll have to check > availability of internet and set this. FWIW this won't be an issue for > Boxes at least as it already checks that to ensure scripts requiring > internet have it available. Perhaps we can assume that for other apps > too? > > 3. a. script templates specify variants supported > b. Add variant info to net ISOs > c. We add separate scripts for netiso variants > > The main/first issue with this would be the fact that volume IDs > on ISOs are the same for both full and net installer ISOs. AFAIK this > is true for all distros, not just Fedora. > > Better ideas welcome! > > -- > Regards, > > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > ________________________________________ > Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) ________________________________________ Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo
