Feature proposal: Rebootless Installer

[Douglas McClendon]

Christoph Höger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> although (as others pointed out) a reboot may be necessary one way or
> the other, my opinion would be: Why not?
> 
> Currently you are *forced* to reboot which now seems not to be a must
> have. 

Thanks for the feedback.  Glad to see somebody else can see the added 
value that doesn't obviously (to me) imply any negative consequence 
(except for the 100kb/700M space on the LiveCD).

To respond to Rahul's response, I think you have it right.  Currently, 
when doing an install of Fedora 11, without my installer, the user is 
'forced' to reboot in order to start 'really' using the newly installed 
system. (see next paragraph for '' explanation)

> So why not remove that force and allow the user to decide when to
> reboot? (Maybe one would like to install all available updates before he
> has to reboot *again* because kernel updates or stuff).

But to demonstrate a lack of bias, I will mention that you are currently 
able to do something like a chroot'd yum update on the installed system 
without rebooting, without my installer.  But this also highlights the 
benefit- it's a lot more trivial and intuitive to update your system if 
it is the one running in front of you, than if it is one you have to 
mount and chroot, and probably even throw in some bindmounts to manage.

> 
> So before any flaming starts: Please keep in mind that no one wants to
> *remove* reboot. ;)

;)

peace...

-dmc