Re: PATCH: Anaconda & Kadischi installer, graphical mode

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 02:12 -0500, Jasper Hartline wrote:
> Here is a patch against anaconda-11.2.0.54-2 which I've created which 
> allows
> Anaconda to be run in it's graphical mode, while inside a LiveCD, when 
> doing LiveCD to HDD installs.
> Since we pass an http:// or ftp:// URL to Anaconda, it's traditional setting
> was to use TUI mode. I've tested this and it seems to work OK.
> 
> The only other solution I could think of, whether the patch is accepted 
> or not
> is to actually check for the presence of a "/.livecd" file in the root 
> of the environment
> we are running in, this would eliminate having to check flags.rootpath, 
> and give finer grained
> control. Not knowing the route Anaconda is going to take in light of 
> Pilgrim, and since we don't
> use the already existant flags.livecd, I've provided both patches.

Why not just pass --graphical to anaconda like the loader does?

Jeremy