feature request the ability to install updates from the internet while installing

[Majid Hussain]

hi all,
I hope you all are having a great day,
would it be possable to have anaconda install updates while installing fedora?

just a thought I had after reinstalling today, it would save time
maybe a box that says get updates or something?

is this feezable?
many thanks for reading! :)
Majid Hussain

Hello Majid,

You are unable to do that with Live DVD. However, you are able to do
that with netinst ISO:

64bit Workstation:

https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/28/Workstation/...

32bit Workstation:

https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/28/Workstat...

Hope this helps you,
Jirka K.

On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 13:37 +0100, Majid Hussain wrote:
> hi all,
> I hope you all are having a great day,
> would it be possable to have anaconda install updates while
> installing fedora?
>
> just a thought I had after reinstalling today, it would save time
> maybe a box that says get updates or something?
>
> is this feezable?
> many thanks for reading! :)
> Majid Hussain

[Majid Hussain]

hi there,
I use a screen reader to use my machine because i'm blind, I believe
there is no accessibility support on the net iso?
if this is not the case, then would you let me know?
this is why I was asking about the dvd image because I am able to
install with orca the screen reader running.
thanks,
Majid Hussain

On 31/07/2018, [e-mail]  wrote:
> Hello Majid,
>
> You are unable to do that with Live DVD. However, you are able to do
> that with netinst ISO:
>
> 64bit Workstation:
>
> https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/28/Workstation/...
>
> 32bit Workstation:
>
> https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/28/Workstat...
>
> Hope this helps you,
> Jirka K.
>
> On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 13:37 +0100, Majid Hussain wrote:
> > hi all,
> > I hope you all are having a great day,
> > would it be possable to have anaconda install updates while
> > installing fedora?
> >
> > just a thought I had after reinstalling today, it would save time
> > maybe a box that says get updates or something?
> >
> > is this feezable?
> > many thanks for reading! :)
> > Majid Hussain
>
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Hello,

Sorry for late response.

We already have bug on adding brltty to the netinst.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1584679

I hope we will be able to get this to Fedora soon.

The original issue:
Sorry, I don't know about a way how to install updates from the Live
DVD installation. I think the only way how to do this is to install
updates in the installed system.

Jirka

On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 09:27 +0100, Majid Hussain wrote:
> hi there,
> I use a screen reader to use my machine because i'm blind, I believe
> there is no accessibility support on the net iso?
> if this is not the case, then would you let me know?
> this is why I was asking about the dvd image because I am able to
> install with orca the screen reader running.
> thanks,
> Majid Hussain
>
> On 31/07/2018, [e-mail]  wrote:
> > Hello Majid,
> >
> > You are unable to do that with Live DVD. However, you are able to
> > do
> > that with netinst ISO:
> >
> > 64bit Workstation:

https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/28/Workstation/...
> > 32bit Workstation:

https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/28/Workstat...
> > Hope this helps you,
> > Jirka K.
> >
> > On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 13:37 +0100, Majid Hussain wrote:
> > > hi all,
> > > I hope you all are having a great day,
> > > would it be possable to have anaconda install updates while
> > > installing fedora?
> > >
> > > just a thought I had after reinstalling today, it would save time
> > > maybe a box that says get updates or something?
> > >
> > > is this feezable?
> > > many thanks for reading! :)
> > > Majid Hussain
> >
> > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list

[Martin Kolman]

On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 13:37 +0100, Majid Hussain wrote:
> hi all,
> I hope you all are having a great day,
> would it be possable to have anaconda install updates while installing fedora?
>
> just a thought I had after reinstalling today, it would save time
> maybe a box that says get updates or something?
>
> is this feezable?

This should be already possible if you use the network installation image,
you can tell Anaconda to use the updates repo and it will install newest versions
of all the packages during installation.

On the Live image this is not really doable/easy as we are basically just copying a
pre-made OS image to the target system with rsync. To update it it would be necessary
to basically chroot to the target system and run a system update (as you would generally do
yourself after the installation).

This has the downside that we would also have to make sure network connectivity is available
(which is not required for plain Live installation) and it would actually not save any time
(it would still be live install + system update) other than running the update automatically
by Anaconda instead of by the user after installation.

I'm thinking something like a service that would start on first boot and ask the user if
a system update should be done would be a better fit.
> many thanks for reading! :)
> Majid Hussain

Best Wishes
Martin Kolman