Bug 135069

Summary:	Saving anaconda selections to fd0
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Panu-Kristian Poiksalo <panze>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3	CC:	nobody+pnasrat
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Description Panu-Kristian Poiksalo 2004-10-08 13:35:25 UTC

It would be nice to be able to be able to save the selections such as
ip addresses, selected packages etc to /dev/fd0 before the install
starts. (There are a LOT of selections!)

That way it would be easy to duplicate the same install if something
goes wrong or similar configuration (package selections) would be
needed on a second machine.

Even a raw dump of the variable space in question to some disk sectors
would be ok - the disk doesn't need to work across different distros
and imho, needing a blank disk to do this is justified.

It would be AWESOME to be able to preload the anaconda selections from
a floppy and then use the [Next] button to go through the data and
change just what is needed. But even a 1:1 duplicate would save a lot
of trouble when repeating a failed install.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-10-11 02:32:13 UTC

Unfortunately, it's too hard to save state in a really useful fashion
and floppies are also fairly obsolete at this point.  At this point,
not really going to do this.