On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 12:28 -0700, stan wrote:
What I'd really like to see is a morph of anaconda that was
started as
an executable from a running version of Fedora, pointed at the new
boot and root partitions, and cloned the currently running version as
closely as possible, while the current version was running. No
downtime to upgrade. I don't think it is possible with current
computing technology to do this well, as it would require a
sophisticated expert system.
I'd like to see that too, and I don't see why it can't be done.
Firstly, in this instance, you'd be working from an already working
installation. Some computers are less than brilliant to use when booted
from a DVD-ROM, or just won't do it. So, in this regard, it ought to be
easier.
The rest of the install - choosing packages, unpacking files to disc,
oughtn't to really care what environment it was working in. Though,
doing it from a running OS might mean that there was less spare RAM to
compute with, than a simpler booted installer routine.
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tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.19.5-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Apr 20 20:28:39 UTC 2015 i686
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