0.94 first impressions

[Brent Fox]

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 11:26, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> Michael Fulbright wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 20:02, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> > 
> [snip]
> > 
> > Option #2. Though what you're asking for might not be too hard to do.
> > 
> > I'd like to change the networking configuration in anaconda to like it
> > used to be pre-7 I think, ie. you only configure the network devices
> > required to do the install. If you do a CD install you don't get asked
> > to configure networking at all. I think this makes more sense to be
> > something you do on firstboot. That way you can use the tool we've
> > designed specifically for the task, not a 1000 line python tool we
> > hacked into anaconda.
> 
> casting my vote for this option (having only network config needed for
> installdone by anaconda), see below
> 
> > Of course I'm pretty fanatical about this concept - I'd like to make
> > anaconda install just enough software so you can then reboot and run
> > redhat-config-packages to choose all the remaining software you want.
> > That way we could put all our effort into that tool which you will use
> > many times, instead of the installer which you use once every many many
> > months.
> 
> I like this idea, it gives you a functional (booting) system faster. In the
> event that you have a machine with problematic hardware, or some part of the
> boot stuff didn't install right, you don't have to wait for a bunch of extra
> software to be installed to find out. And you have less stuff to be suspicious
> of. Is there an RFE for this in bugzilla? Does the RH bugzilla iste have voting
> enabled? Since this is Fedora Core, is this mailing list the best place for the
> community to decide the direction?

If you go back and look at anaconda and firstboot since RHL 8.0 and
onwards, we've been moving in this direction for over a year.  The idea
is to have a smaller installer and modular config tools that can be
plugged into the firstboot framework in addition to being used as
standalone apps after installation. 

Anaconda is a pretty complicated piece of software, so the kind of
changes we're talking about takes time.  Hopefully with Fedora we can
move a little faster than we have in the past but it will probably take
us another release or so to get to what msf is describing.


Cheers,
   Brent