Hi,
On 04-07-17 16:41, Bastien Nocera wrote:
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On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 2:11 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"Language and Keyboard Layout"
I don't see how a normal (non live) non net-install differs
from a net-install. In both cases anaconda is pretty much the
only thing which is running and as such is the best place to
ask about this. I agree that with livecds we need something
else.
It doesn't. Anaconda is the right place in both cases. But Workstation
has only the live image and netinstall images, so we don't consider
this case.
"Time and Date"
It is important to get the timezone setup correctly *before*
running the phase of anaconda where it formats filesystems
and copies files. Otherwise various tools may complain about
timestamps in the future for files created during install
time when the timezone is later changed in such a way
that the (timezone-adjusted) time becomes earlier.
We've had several bugs related to this in the past and
actually have moved timezone configuration up to an earlier
point in the installer because of this.
The timezone configuration is only needed for dual-boot installations where
the BIOS is in local time instead of UTC, as I don't expect the installer
to write anything but UTC dates on disk.
The problem is with freshly generated files, if the timezone is say
CET, then those files (and also the filesystem creation timestamp in
the superblock) get created at UTC+1, if then after boot the user corrects
the timezone to say UTC-6 and within those 7 hours reboots the user
will get a bunch of complaints from fsck and other tools about timestamps
in the future. IIRC. esp. the fsck issue was nasty.
Really this is a solved problem for 8 years or so now, the anaconda team
has gone over this in much detail back then. We simply MUST ask for the
timezone info before writing anything to disk.
Regards,
Hans
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