Pipe dreams: yum-based anaconda a step towards on-line yum-based upgrades?
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Wed Nov 30 21:21:10 UTC 2005
Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net) said:
> Anaconda requires you to get an installation image somewhere and burn it
> to a CD/DVD. A firstboot package would just add an entry to the usual
> boot menu, and work even on a CD-less system. Plus a firstboot could be
> split into "manage partitions" "manage lvms" ... tools, while anaconda
> only knows about update process.
On install, anaconda could copy it's own boot image and stage 2 to /boot,
and allow you to boot that later without a CD.
Bill, not very serious, but....
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