Pipe dreams: yum-based anaconda a step towards on-line yum-based upgrades?

[Bill Nottingham]

Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net) said: 
> Anaconda requires you to get an installation image somewhere and burn it
> to a CD/DVD. A firstboot package would just add an entry to the usual
> boot menu, and work even on a CD-less system. Plus a firstboot could be
> split into "manage partitions" "manage lvms" ... tools, while anaconda
> only knows about update process.

On install, anaconda could copy it's own boot image and stage 2 to /boot,
and allow you to boot that later without a CD. 

Bill, not very serious, but....