From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: Fedora has tons of packages to install and when installing most of them.. if installer crashes with an error, its almost a pain to redo the whole process and ofcourse lots of time waste. Can there be a Installing Resumer which actually resumes the install from where it had crashed earlier. May be saving the installed packages image and checking for it while next reboot and trying to resume it.. This will greatly help. __ Thanks Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. On every install failure 2. 3. Additional info:
Bumping up to devel. This feature is one of the planned enhancements http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaWorkItems
Handling this is very difficult as you could have failed at any of a number of points leaving your filesystem in a very inconsistent state.
(In reply to comment #2) > Handling this is very difficult as you could have failed at any of a number of > points leaving your filesystem in a very inconsistent state. May be handling some points can be done... Like storing the pre-install steps like, mounting info, network, firewall, etc info, selected packages info.. etc somewhere if formatting of partitions step is successfull.. (may be in the root partition.. as anyhow.. the installer will check for whether to install or upgrade the existing OS based on the presence of a root partition). Once the install of rpms started... and if the system level rpms' like glibc etc are installed successfully, may be we can save the so far installed rpms list (which i think is already done) and on the error reboot, try to diff from the user selected list and start from the next rpm.. to be installed... It is like.. sometimes.. an rpm install is failing.. because of corrupt? may be and the installer is refusing to go to next rpm and exiting.. i feel that would help... Just ideas to share.. __ thanks