On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 11:19 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > There's no such step in the live install (right?). Now, it would > likely make sense to have such a mechanism, but it would need design. > I forget offhand too how the PackageKit updater works in the live > image (do we disable it by default?). With the Anaconda live installer, it's the raw unmodified live filesystem that is "copied" to the newly partitioned disk(s). Ergo any rpm updating you do on the LiveOS before you start the installer will be lost. It appears that Doglas' installer uses the in use LiveOS so that the changes you make while running the LiveOS before starting the install will be carried over into the install. That in itself seems interesting enough to explore and see if we can't get the same functionality, to some extent into Anaconda. As for rebootless, that's interesting too. I'm glad you were able to demo the technology within your installer, but I'd worry about the duplication of effort/code to have yet another program that is designed to discover disks, partition them appropriately for an install, copy content, then install a boot loader. There is a lot of logic code in Anaconda to get the partitioning correct for an installation, even if the backend code uses system level libraries and tools to accomplish the partitioning. Ditto boot loaders and kernel setup. If we as a project find rebootless installation useful then we should find a way to integrate it with our existing installer and code set which already carries all the logic necessary to pull it off, from years of experience and bug reports. I think your work is great and useful though! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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