Yet another futuristic wishlist item

[Gene C.]

On Wednesday 17 December 2003 12:55, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 12:43, Gene C. wrote:
> > I would think that this should almost be a separate endevor (perhaps
> > handled outside of Red Hat by community developers).  To some extent this
> > sounds a bit like the rescue cd which was part of earlier Red Hat Linux
> > or KNOPPIX or BBC or ...
>
> And reproduce all of the hardware and root detection that's already in
> anaconda?  There's a reason why the rescue CD was moved to be anaconda's
> rescue mode...  having it as completely separate just means that it
> never gets looked at and has odd weird brokenness.

I had not thought of that aspect.   But, maybe it can still be something that 
"others" do ... like the current effort to create FC1-x86_64 (or are those 
really Red Hat contractors/consultants).
-- 
Gene