CDs DVDs or netboot. Oh my!

Douglas McClendon dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Thu Oct 11 18:38:48 UTC 2007


David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 08:30 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> Le mercredi 10 octobre 2007 à 22:23 -0400, seth vidal a écrit :
>>
>>> livecd - you can do pkg selection after you're installed 
>> And users do not want that. That's the same thing as the "reboot before
>> continuing" windows plague
> 
> It's theoretically possible to do a reboot-less install (google for
> livecd raid broken mirror)

or *cough* *cough*

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-July/msg00768.html

  but that is IMO so far into weeds because I
> simply don't think it's true that users are afraid of reboots as you
> state. Hell, we require it for kernel upgrades etc. etc.

FWIW, I did the above not because of user fear of reboots, but rather 
user annoyance at reboots.

-dmc




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