From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) Description of problem: RFE: Choice between anaconda's "guided installation" and a new ksconfig installer interface. It would be really nice if we could choose up front on a first install whether we want to use the standard anaconda guided install or to use a all in one screen menu selection just like ksconfig. On this new method, one would get all the mouse clicks out of the way right up front. Once satisfied with your selections you would then possibly save to a ks.cfg file and you would then instruct the installer to proceed. Now the installer won't ask you anymore questions and the install completes. It would just be nice to do all your clicking at once (maybe even have some defaults pulled in from an existing ks.cfg file as best it can interpret) then once you are done clicking you just choose the "go" button and no more questions asked and the installer finishes. (please don't seriously label the button go). The defaults pulled in from the existing ks.cfg file could be a previous Red Hat Linux versioned ks.cfg or one from this same version (maybe you made some bad choices in your last attempt and now instead of rekeying them all in you can just "tweak" your last choices.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
We've talked about this and its just a matter of finding time. I think its a good idea.
We are looking at various ways to reduce the number of steps in the installer, which should help some. However, creating another install mode to be more of a ksconfig style UI seems to me to be a lot of work for not much gain. I would just recommend running redhat-config-kickstart on another machine and generating the kickstart file you want to use. Alternatively, you can use the 'interactive' kickstart flag to pre-populate the anaconda screens with the data from the kickstart file. I think that at least some of the functionality that you're looking for already exists so I'm going to close this as 'wontfix'.