Anaconda woes and release notes

[Paul W. Frields]

Hi Docs team,

As you know, the Beta has been slipped a week to March 31.  Jesse
Keating outlined the reasons for this in his announcement[1], which
include issues in the Anaconda installer, which has had a complete
rewrite of its storage backend.

We *really* need Beta downloaders to be aware of these issues when
they download, so they need to be called out well in the Beta release
notes.  Also, we want to encourage people *not* to hold off, because
without more testing of the Beta, it is less likely issues are going
to be found, filed, and fixed.  (Hmm, three more "good f-words.") ;-)

In particular, a couple things for which I believe Beta testers should
have a super-big "heads up":

* the storage rewrite, and how it affects their ability to install
  (problems are currently in RAID and properly picking up some LVM
  configurations)

* ext4 as default -- I think this is still the plan; updates aren't
  converted, but fresh installs will default to ext4 file systems

* BACK UP DATA!!!1!!  Yes, we really should impress this on people,
  especially if they're in the RAID or LVM category (which is most
  people -- default installations use LVM nowadays).

So we're trying to set reasonable expectations, while encouraging
people to test, especially installation.  I have some information on
current Anaconda gaps, which I can include in the [[Common F11 bugs]]
page, if that helps.

* * *
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-March/msg00015.html

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