On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 11:15 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 20:51 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > History: Up until Fedora 7 all RH family products had an install CD that > > people could download, stick in their drive and install a minimal set of > > packages or at least specify a method to install from. > > > > Problem: As of Fedora 7 (and soon with Fedora 8) they cannot do this. > > The installable live cd can install but not in the traditional sense of > > what people are used to. It has no package selection and cannot upgrade. > > I'm not sure why you shouldn't be able to use anaconda on the live image > to do an upgrade of an existing Fedora OS. E.g. downloading packages > from the network or media [1] as needed. The main thing missing is a nice way of launching anaconda to do this (and prompting for where to get the bits from). Beyond that, the code is there and works. Also for doing a "regular" install and not just copying the live image. > As for "no package selection during install" on the live cd; that's just > a red herring - you can easily do this post-install. Most people just > don't notice it. Ideally the live cd installer could ask you "Do you > want to install other packages too?" and then use the network / media to > do this. Mostly a matter of round 'tuits to just integrate the couple of pieces needed. All the actual hard code is there, just doing it hasn't been high on the priority list Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
