Bug 1321368

Summary: [Request] Anaconda doesn't provide OEM install option
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Denis Donici <denis_donici>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 26CC: anaconda-maint-list, denis_donici, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mkolman, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Denis Donici 2016-03-25 20:00:13 UTC
Description of problem:

At the moment there is no straightforward way to make a OEM installation for end users from Anaconda. There is Kickstart and other scripts that help with that. 

Expected results:
Provide an option to install a Fedora Workstation in OEM mode. 


Additional info:
This is how it's done in Ubuntu

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubuntu_OEM_Installer_Overview

This will be useful for vendors that want to ship hardware with Fedora Workstation preinstalled.

Comment 1 David Shea 2016-03-28 13:38:04 UTC
What exactly are you looking for you that is not provided by kickstart, image and dir installs, or tools such as livemedia-creator?

Comment 2 David Shea 2016-03-31 19:14:34 UTC
It may also be worth noting that anaconda will save the settings from a given install to /root/anaconda-ks.cfg, which can be used a template for future installs. Feel free to provide details about features you feel are missing or areas where usability could be improved.

Comment 3 Denis Donici 2016-09-21 21:08:57 UTC
I am looking for a simple and straightforward GUI way to install Fedora in OEM mode. 

Steps taken>
  *Plug in a USB with a ISO.
  *Boot in Anaconda. 
  *Choose OEM install. 
  *Fedora is installed automatically. Without any intervention from my side.   
  *After install the device is powered off.
  *First boot after install, the user is required to set up an account, wifi connection, online accounts and other post installation settings. He also should be shown the GPL license and User Agreement.

Comment 4 Martin Kolman 2016-09-22 12:47:56 UTC
(In reply to Denis Donici from comment #3)
> I am looking for a simple and straightforward GUI way to install Fedora in
> OEM mode. 
> 
> Steps taken>
>   *Plug in a USB with a ISO.
>   *Boot in Anaconda. 
>   *Choose OEM install. 
>   *Fedora is installed automatically. Without any intervention from my side.
This can be achieved with the "cmdline" kickstart command:
https://github.com/rhinstaller/pykickstart/blob/master/docs/kickstart-docs.rst#cmdline

Note that the kickstart file needs to contain all the required information for the installation.

> 
>   *After install the device is powered off.
>   *First boot after install, the user is required to set up an account,
Initial Setup can be enabled with "firstboot --enable" so that the user can setup the user account once the machine boots up after the installation.

> wifi connection, online accounts and other post installation settings.
I think the Gnome Initial Setup tool has a screen for online accounts or I guess the user can do that in the system when needed.

> He also should be shown the GPL license
Is that really needed ? Also AFAIK the software in Fedora is licensed under many different open source licenses, not just GPL and even GPL has variants - v2, v3, LGPL, AGPL, etc.

> and User Agreement.
Fedora doesn't have anything like that, so I don't think we have currently any facilities for that. But Initial Setup displays the RHEL EULA on on RHEL, so that might be theoretically backported to the Fedora IS if really needed.

Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 09:56:32 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

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