Bug 135069 - Saving anaconda selections to fd0
Summary: Saving anaconda selections to fd0
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-08 13:35 UTC by Panu-Kristian Poiksalo
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-10-11 02:32:13 UTC
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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.


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