Le mercredi 30 novembre 2005 à 16:21 -0500, Bill Nottingham a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Anaconda requires you to get an installation image somewhere and burn it > > to a CD/DVD. A firstboot package would just add an entry to the usual > > boot menu, and work even on a CD-less system. Plus a firstboot could be > > split into "manage partitions" "manage lvms" ... tools, while anaconda > > only knows about update process. > > On install, anaconda could copy it's own boot image and stage 2 to /boot, > and allow you to boot that later without a CD. > > Bill, not very serious, but.... You know, at one point anaconda was the only tool which knew how to do a full system package upgrade. Then dedicated tools appeared, where generally useful outside anaconda, and as a result anaconda is rewritten to use yum as a better package upgrade engine. I claim : 1. most of the remaining anaconda features can be moved to either general-purpose tools (like yum) or a release-specific function bundle (hopefully as small as possible) 2. the parts that require a cold system can be accessed easily from a bootloader entry which removes the need of burning a CD for upgrades, or even having a separate boot media than the upgraded system altogether For new installations the same tools would be linked in a CD wizard install process like today. But for everything else (upgrade or general system maintenance) there would be no reason to go through the anaconda bits useful only for fresh installations. You'll note windows mastered this a long time ago (windows is the reboot genius). As long as something can be done on a live system FC is quite superior. But for all the rest windows will just create a new management boot mode (and ask the user to reboot), while FC will ask the user to boot on the install CD, and somehow manage manually to run the required utilities while avoiding to actually follow the install process to its end. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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