Re: Trying to break the anaconda/distro embrace

[Jim Wildman <jim rossberry com>]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> As it stands today, if you boot with the rescue CD, you can enter an
> arbitrary repository path and be able to do an installation with the
> packages from there without any other real dependencies.  I think that
> this is something which is very very valuable.  Much more so than the
> existing boot.iso/diskboot.img.

Are you saying that I will be able to boot with the new_anaconda.iso,
and install rhel 3, 4 and 5 from the same image by specifying a
different repository?

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