Re: loader/stage2 interaction

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 11:18 -0400, Chris Lumens wrote:
> >> - Support the following installation sources:  http/ftp, dvd/cd, nfs,
> >>   nfsiso, hdiso.  It'd also be nice to support regular hd installs.
> >
> > It doesn't? I'm sure I did one or two, back before hdiso was invented. RHL 
> > 7.x.
> 
> It may have in the past.  It hasn't as long as I've been working on
> anaconda, which admittedly has only been three years now.

We did long ago, but removed the support due to an extreme number of
cases where people would only mirror the things they "thought" they
needed and then end up in a bad place.  If we go back to supporting it,
we need to add some significant checking to ensure that the packages are
there in advance

Jeremy