Description of problem: During a typical f7livecd install to hard drive, a user would choose a destination / volume, and choose to format it as ext3. Anaconda then proceeds to format it, before making that format irrelevant when it subsequently copies the live ext3 image from live media to the destination / volume, and then resize2fs it to the full size. Thus the livecd install process takes much longer than it needs to, depending on the size of the volume. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 159146 [details] INCOMPLETE patch to remove unnecessary format of rootfs in livecd backend This patch, appears after the most rudimentary of testing, to fix the problem that caused me to file the bug. Please review and comment.
Created attachment 159170 [details] patch to remove unnecessary format of rootfs in livecd backend Ok, so I jumped the gun on the earlier patch. This one actually works. It may well break a million other things, but at least it does what it's supposed to. I'd be more than happy fix any coding style or other suggestions. I'm definitely not a seasoned python programmer.
I had looked at this prior to F7, but had been ending up with things more invasive. While not entirely elegant, it definitely wins on the simple count and thus I'll apply it for now and then we'll relook at the question as we rework partitioning.