FESCo Workstation PRD follow up questions

[drago01]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 01/29/2014 08:31 AM, drago01 wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Josh Boyer
>> <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Stephen Gallagher
>>> <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 01/29/2014 08:08 AM, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 04:59 -0500, Christian Schaller wrote:
>>>>>>> 2) What is the actual deliverable and delivery mechanism
>>>>>>> for Workstation?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is asking how we intend to ship the Workstation
>>>>>>> product. ISO, live USB image, something else?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is no plan to change this from what has been the
>>>>>> primary delivery methods of Fedora so far. That said I
>>>>>> think the emphasis will need to change where a USB sticks
>>>>>> is the primary medium and DVDs the secondary.
>>>>>
>>>>> Two notes in this regard:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) If we are going the USB way (which I think is the way to
>>>>> go as many laptops are removing CD/DVD and we also save some
>>>>> trees in the meantime), we should look at ways to improve the
>>>>> USB creation experience and documetnation wrt to the current
>>>>> state. I would make it a priority to focus on making it
>>>>> specially easy for Windows and Mac OS X users.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) I would remove the DVD install-only option. Focusing only
>>>>> the installable Live media. The reason for this suggestion is
>>>>> that it would remove the amount of media we have to test and
>>>>> release and that it will reduce that confusing choice for
>>>>> users (if you're new it's hard to figure out which option is
>>>>> best or whether it matters at all).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'd be very wary of doing this. The big problem with the live
>>>> install option is that it's highly limited in the storage
>>>> configurations it can use. There will certainly be users out
>>>> there who will want to install Fedora Workstation on systems
>>>> with complicated storage setups. The live media probably won't
>>>> work for them.
>>>
>>> How relevant to Workstation is that?
>>
>> It isn't because the Live Install no longer does the "dd image to
>> disk" thing but just creates partitons, mounts and copies the
>> data. So there is no limit to storage configuration I know of.
>>
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> Hmm, I must have missed that we're no longer doing that. So the
> "install from live image" now has full access to the anaconda storage
> manager? If that's the case, I withdraw my concerns.

Yes I don't know of anything that's missing but I have not compared
both and checked every single option.

>> Stephen anything specific that does not work for you using live?
>>
>
> Truthfully, I haven't installed from live media since around F16. I
> always install with the net iso.

OK.