2006/4/20, Andre Nogueira <andre.nogueira.fedora@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi, > > How about improvements to Anaconda? > > Here are a few things... > > 1) If you install from FTP or HTTP, you can only download from one mirror. > Why not ask the user if (s)he wants to add more mirrors, so several packages > can be downloaded at the same time, from different mirrors (thus increasing > download speed). It would also be useful if, for some reason, one mirror has > a corrupted package. why not just use the yum mirrorlist feature instead? 0 configuration then. especially if used in conjunction with the fastestmirror plugin it would be nice. > > 2) When Anaconda is installing a package, it is not downloading the next > package. Why not continue downloading packages while installing downloaded > packages? > > 3) When Anaconda starts, ask the user if (s)he has a kickstart configuration > file on a pen drive or remote FTP/HTTP location (s)he'd like to use. This > would make kickstart files much more user friendly. > > I tried browsing through Bugzilla to see if any of these had already been > suggested, and didn't find anything. However, I'm new to helping Fedora, so > forgive me if I simply didn't search correctly... > > Thanks, > > Andre > > > On 4/20/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 4/20/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 17:46 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > A GUI utility which helps newbies get information that may be useful > > > > in helping them get answers on irc, forums, mailing lists etc, might > > > > be helpful. > > > > > > > > Things like the output of: > > > > uname -a > > > > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > > > lsmod > > > > lspci > > > > lsusb > > > > tail /var/log/messages > > > > du -h > > > > free -h > > > > > > > > Or other info such: > > > > current desktop environment > > > > current login manager > > > > > > Sounds like a wrapper for sysreport which is available in Fedora too. > > > Would be quite useful for the less technically inclined users. > > > > > > http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_80_456.shtm > > > > > > Rahul > > > > > > > Sweet, didn't even know about that tool. Seems like something which > > should be a lot more visible. > > > > -- > > As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins. > > > > -- > > fedora-devel-list mailing list > > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > > > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
