Re: FC5 anaconda

["Gene C." <czar czarc net>]

On Monday 28 February 2005 14:05, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:01:20PM -0500, Gene C. wrote:
> > There have been a number of characteristics/functionality for anaconda in
> > FC5 mentioned on this list.  Is there some place where the plan is
> > described/discussed?
>
> Jeremy Katz gave a talk about it at FUDCon -- the slides are online at
> <http://fedoraproject.org/fudcon/> (click on the link in the schedule at
> the bottom). It was also recorded; not sure what the status of the video
> is, but it's supposed to get put up eventually.

Thanks, that provides some info but I suspect that a lot of words were spoken 
which added a lot more info.

I believe I understand how this will (could) all work for an Internet 
connected system where, basically, you do a network install for a lot of that 
packages (especially those in Fedora Extras).  However, how about the 
unconnected system?  What is the thinking on how it will handle installing 
everything from CD or DVD images?  Will there be CD and/or DVD iso images for 
Extras or will we need to roll our own?

Even for Internet connected systems, if you have a number of systems to do 
installs on, you do not want to have to download the packages for each 
system ... you (or at least I) want to download the packages once and then do 
installs on all of the systems.

I suspect I may be a bit early with these questions and some of the stuff has 
not been thought through just yet ... some general goals established but not 
"how" to do it.
-- 
Gene