[Design Team] #69: Make upgrades easier from install DVD (f13 timeframe maybe) - design-team-tickets - Fedora mailing-lists

20 Aug 2009


      #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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