On 11/30/05, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net> wrote:
Nah
Anaconda requires you to get an installation image somewhere and burn it
to a CD/DVD. A firstboot package would just add an entry to the usual
boot menu, and work even on a CD-less system. Plus a firstboot could be
split into "manage partitions" "manage lvms" ... tools, while
anaconda
only knows about update process.
Anaconda does not require burning a CD. Booting from the
images/pxeboot/vmlinuz and initrd.img added to grub.conf works well
with the installer and packages coming from the hard drive or over the
network. I have used that technique a few times to upgrade existing
installs.
- Ian