#69: Make upgrades easier from install DVD (f13 timeframe maybe)
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Reporter: duffy | Owner: duffy
Type: mockup request | Status: new
Priority: major | Component: Interaction Design / Usability
Severity: Moderately Involved | Keywords:
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contact: Will Woods
preupgrade is great for upgrading but it requires internet access. if you
have access to a DVD you should be able to upgrade too. we need a ui
design for an app to handle this.
<mizmo> wwoods: e.g., upgrading your system thru anaconda is SCARY
<mizmo> wwoods: because there's a lot of knobs you can turn to destroy
things
<mizmo> wwoods: but preupgrade is only used for upgrading, so i think it's
less scary
<wwoods> in my opinion the generate-kickstart bits of preupgrade oughtta
be on the DVD somewhere
<wwoods> such that you can pop in the DVD and launch.. something
<mizmo> wwoods: yeh! what might be nice is you pop in the dvd, and it asks
if you want to install or upgrade, you pick upgrade and it works similar
to preupgrade where u dont have to go thru anaconda's ui at all
<wwoods> that's trivial if the first stage runs on the system you're
trying to upgrade - we write a little note that says "HEY ANACONDA UPGRADE
THIS ONE"
<wwoods> IIRC that's really the only choice you need to make during
upgrade
<wwoods> probably there's three cases:
<wwoods> 1) no Fedora installed anywhere we can see. skip upgrade screen.
<wwoods> 2) exactly one Fedora install. Present "We're gonna upgrade
this:
..." with a "No, I want to wipe and reinstall" button
<wwoods> 3) More than one. Same as 2), but with a "which system do you
wanna upgrade" dropdown.
<wwoods> honestly it would be really, really simple to have a "Launch
upgrade" helper app on the DVD
<wwoods> so when you insert the DVD a nautilus window is gonna pop up and
it'll have a bunch of things and one "Install Fedora" item
<wwoods> etc. wouldn't be hard but alas I don't have much (any) time for
preupgrade lately
<wwoods> buuut if you can help with some proposed UI / workflow stuff I
can get some tickets filed and roadmap it out
<wwoods> and hopefully I can find people who do have time
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