Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 6/1/07, Christopher Aillon <caillon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Actually, many people do network installs. I have no DVD burner so the >> DVD ISO does me no good. So I downloaded the boot.iso to load up >> anaconda, and pointed the installer at the right places on the network. >> Much less downloading as you only update what you need. > > For people who do network based upgrades/re-installs...... > would it be feasible, and appropriate to provide a package in the F7 > repo which contained the F8 installer image as a grub entry for an F7 > system at the time of F8 release. So people could install that and > reboot into the installer via their grub menu and do an upgrade via > the installer.. instead of being tempted to do a live upgrade just > with yum. Clever monkeys can do this manually now with some effort to > pull the installer image from the iso. The question is, does it make > sense to make this easier for the general userbase and provide a > package in a timely manner into F7 for the F8 release? > > -jef I kind of like this as an idea! My only concern is that people will use this to do ftp installs off the mirrors - which is a bad as yum really. -- Benjamin Lewis Fedora Ambassador ben.lewis@xxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://benl.co.uk./ PGP Key: 0x647E480C "In cases of major discrepancy, it is always reality that got it wrong" -- RFC 1118
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