On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 23:22 +0200, חץ בן חמו wrote: > Hi, > > > As a long time Fedora user, I find my self installing Fedora on many > systems, and I thought about an idea about the whole installation > process. > > > IMHO, at the moment, the current installation process is quite .. > confusing. text mode installation has gone, No it hasn't. Boot with parameter 'text'. > and so VNC method (last I checked), No it hasn't. Boot with parameter 'vnc'. > and we have a graphical installation which has it's own issues like > weird places for buttons, and weirder setup for the disk. Again, it's > only my opinion. > > > So I thought about it for a long time and I would like to purpose a > different installation method - a web installer. > > > Think about it - currently Anaconda knows how to detect most of the > network cards (which is what we need to setup IP/Subnet/Gateway/DNS), > and everyone has either a laptop or a tablet or a smartphone. All the > other parts that needs to be added to the installation are small web > server (nginx?), and the HTML/JS and graphics files. All of it won't > be bigger then few dozens of MB to the DVD ISO. > > > So the web installation will do something simple: > > > * Upon booting the DVD ISO and selecting web installation, it will > detect the network card and show them so the user could select which > network card to use > * The user will select the card and enter the IP/Subnet Mask/Default > Gateway and the DNS > * The installer will show the user a URL that he can connect to in > order to continue the installation > * The user will connect to this IP using his laptop/tablet/smart phone > through it's web browser. > * The user will select and do all the installation. > > > Advantages: > > > * No more graphics issues if you're in a place where you don't have a > mouse or you got some really crappy CRT on a hosting company wanting > to install a new OS. > * There are basically tons of people who would be happy to contribute > either HTML/JS code or graphics for the installer, which could give a > really good look to the installer > * Easier way to install Fedora using your browser > * You don't need to sit in a freezing colo place just to install your > OS :-) > > > What do you think about this idea? I don't think it'll be any use to most people as port 80 won't be open, and I think you're badly under-estimating the difficulty of writing an installer UI. I don't think it really provides anything that VNC install doesn't... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
