Feature proposal: Rebootless Installer

[Douglas McClendon]

Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 14.07.2009, 20:12 +0530 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
>> On 07/14/2009 08:08 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>>> Am Dienstag, den 14.07.2009, 19:05 +0530 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
>>>> On 07/14/2009 07:02 PM, Christoph Höger wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> although (as others pointed out) a reboot may be necessary one way or
>>>>> the other, my opinion would be: Why not?
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently you are *forced* to reboot which now seems not to be a must
>>>>> have. 
>>>> Nobody is forced. You must be misremembering things.
>>> Obviously you are the one misremembering things:
>>> http://cwickert.fedorapeople.org/temp/anaconda-last-screen.png
>> We are talking about a live cd installation, yes? 
> 
> Are we? If I understand the proposal correctly it also includes
> rebootless switching from the installation DVD into your newly installed
> system.

Ok, one more simple reply- No, this is *just* a LiveOS thing, that has 
nothing to do with the traditional^2 (non-live) DVD installer.  Though 
one could of course imagine architecting something like that, but that 
_would_ boil down to more or less the same thing as opensuse appears to 
be doing with kexec.

peace and g'nite...

-dmc


> 
>> You can close the installer then.
> 
> But why would I want that? If somebody installs Fedora, I'm sure he
> wants to actually use it and not the slow livecd. So the rebootless
> feature only makes sense if one can switch rebootless to the installed
> system - from the livecd as well as from the installation DVD.
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph
>