FC5 anaconda

[Joe Harnish]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:23 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 10:04 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:49:23PM -0500, Gene C. wrote:
> > > I believe I understand how this will (could) all work for an Internet
> > > connected system where, basically, you do a network install for a lot of
> > > that packages (especially those in Fedora Extras). However, how about the
> > > unconnected system? What is the thinking on how it will handle installing
> > > everything from CD or DVD images? Will there be CD and/or DVD iso images
> > > for Extras or will we need to roll our own?
> > 
> > I'm hoping for the multiple-extras-flavors (Extras:Java / Extras:Games /
> > Extras:Whatever), which could each have CDs. But I think that network
> > install is going to be more and more the way.
> 
> Yeah, network install from a local mirror is definitely the way.  With
> CDs there's just no way to avoid the scenario where we have you swap
> discs up front to read repodata, and then wind up going through all of
> them *again* during the actual install.
> 
> It should be doable, of course, but it'll be a painfully high level of
> user interaction for an install.  Whereas with a local mirror, you can
> do network install pretty easily.
> 
> It's not yet clear exactly which of these features will land in FC5 and
> which will take longer, but this is the route everybody has agreed we're
> headed in.
> 
> -- 
>         Peter
> 

Something that would be really cool to go along with a local mirror is
to be able to run the installer from a CD but point to a locally mounted
USB hard disk or something.  This may be too complicated compared to a
local repo but it would sure be nice. :)

Joe