On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:22:48AM -0800, 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. Maybe that's what koan does? I haven't used it, but in the cobbler/koan tandem, koan is used instead of pxebooting a system, so it probably just does something similar to what you describe. > 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 > -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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