Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Robin Norwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> The people working on Anaconda are moving towards deprecating the >> text-only installer, if not completely, >> then for most cases. > > Yes, I've seen notes in that direction and discussion on the buildsys > list. It's there in F9, so I'll take advantage of it while I can, and > revisit on the next rebase. > > It is not clear to me how the anaconda team will support installs on > embedded systems over serial port. And I have to keep that in mind for > some of the HW options we have for the XS. >
Wouldn't a vnc install work here? >> OTOH, if you're doing kickstart installs of these things, then you >> don't need the graphical installer after all. > > It must support both kickstart-driven (for deployments) and > interactive (for developers and pilot sites mainly). The interactive > needs are not very complex (partitioning mainly) so as long as a > limited text mode remains, we're ok... The advantage is the better disk tools with the graphical installer. Think I'll play with the vnc install for a bit. Jerry _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
