0.94 first impressions

Mitch Anderson mitch at metauser.net
Fri Sep 26 16:09:15 UTC 2003


> I'd like to change the networking configuration in anaconda to like it
> used to be pre-7 I think, ie. you only configure the network devices
> required to do the install. If you do a CD install you don't get asked
> to configure networking at all. I think this makes more sense to be
> something you do on firstboot. That way you can use the tool we've
> designed specifically for the task, not a 1000 line python tool we
> hacked into anaconda.
> 
> Of course I'm pretty fanatical about this concept - I'd like to make
> anaconda install just enough software so you can then reboot and run
> redhat-config-packages to choose all the remaining software you want.
> That way we could put all our effort into that tool which you will use
> many times, instead of the installer which you use once every many many
> months.

I like that, for whatever its worth, I vote for anaconda to work like that.

Mitch





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