Testing f14 anaconda

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 17:17 +0100, mike cloaked wrote:
> There is currently version anaconda-14.20-1.fc14 in updates-testing
> but I seem to be the only one who has tested it ( At least according
> to bodhi comments) .  It would be nice if this could be pushed into
> the main f14 repo so that it is included in the F14 builds ahead of
> release.

What we usually do with anaconda is put it in the ISOs before it's
actually gone to stable, because it's difficult to test it without
someone making images. But obviously you figured out how, thanks a lot
for that :)

> I tested tc1.1 for a DVD install, but this still has the previous
> version of anaconda in it.
> 
> If anyone wants to test the new version of anaconda from
> updates-testing it may be useful if I detail what I did to test it for
> an install. Then others could do something similar. I used a usbkey
> for install but other methods could adapt the same basic idea and
> would be good to test an alternative method.
> 
> I downloaded the tc1.1 DVD iso from
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14.TC1.1/Fedora/i386/iso/
> as well as the boot.iso from
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14.TC1.1/Fedora/i386/os/images/
> 
> Then I used the script from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bcl
> i.e. the file "upd_bootiso" referenced from that web page, and
> executed it with the new anaconda rpm downloaded from a mirror for f14
> updates-testing so that a new boot.iso was written containing the new
> anaconda. This gave a file new-boot.iso in /tmp/ which I renamed back
> to boot.iso to be used as the test install file.
> 
> What I then did was to prepare a usbkey for the install in an f13
> system, plugging in the usbkey and then executing as root:
> umount /dev/sdb1 (since my key was sdb)
> 
> Then
> livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr path-to/boot.iso /dev/sdb1
> prepares the key as a bootable device - ready to boot the new boot.iso
> 
> The last stage was to copy the DVD iso onto the key as well.
> 
> To test I booted from the key and this initiated the install onto the
> laptop using the new version of anconda (and checked on screen as the
> install began)- it then referenced the DVD iso on the usbkey - the
> only watchpoint was to switch the writing of grub onto the MBR of the
> internal HD rather than the default /dev/sdb by selecting "Switch
> Device" at the bootloader settings screen, and swapping the setting of
> first and second BIOS drive so that grub goes onto the MBR of /dev/sda
> rather than /dev/sdb
> 
> The install for me was then uneventful and completed normally - and I
> have added a comment in bodhi with positive karma.
> 
> If anyone else can run a test then presumably with karma +2 the new
> anaconda package would get used in the next compose for rc ahead of
> GA?
> 
> Would be nice if someone else could test for an install.
> 
> -- 
> mike c

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