On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey, > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 06:21:31PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 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! > > 3. sounds much better than the other alternatives. One hackish way to > detect net install images VS full images is that the former will usually > be much smaller than full images (100MB VS 700MB). This must correspond > to 'volume size' in isoinfo output. The Eltorito bootoff (boot offset?) > is different too. > The more specific we get though, the more likely it is we have to add > additional osinfo entries for point releases (debian/ubuntu X.Y.z > releases) Hmm.. didn't think of this but as you said, not only it is very hackish but would also imply us having to add otherwise redundant entries. How about we go for #2? -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) ________________________________________ Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo
