Feature proposal: Rebootless Installer

[Douglas McClendon]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 07/14/2009 08:23 PM, Christoph Höger wrote:
>>> We are talking about a live cd installation, yes? You can close the
>>> installer then.
>> We were talking about anaconda. And I still don't know a sane (aka "no
>> manual chroot") way to go from livecd into the fresh installed
>> environment. 
>> You surely agree that users that know about chroot are probably not the
>> ones adressed with the "hey, cool, in this linux thingy i do not need to
>> reboot after install" feature, don't you?
> 
> I never suggested otherwise but my point is simply that describing the
> current experience as being forced to reboot doesn't sound appropriate.
> You are free to continue working on the live environment post
> installation unlike in regular installations. That is a significant
> difference, IMO.

I agree that is a significant already existing benefit of Fedora's 
LiveOS.  I would just hope you would agree that the leap to not having 
to deal with the chroot, and just being 'already in your installed 
system' is as significant a difference as well.

peace...

-dmc