Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

Vít Ondruch vondruch at redhat.com
Wed Apr 18 08:41:45 UTC 2012


Dne 17.4.2012 20:51, Adam Williamson napsal(a):
> On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 10:04 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 09:55 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Nathanael D. Noblet<nathanael at gnat.ca>  wrote:
>>>> How bout adding/changing the icon for installing? Can we not include some
>>>> text in the icon? "Install Fedora" somehow??
>>> Actually... would it make sense to force a notification event about
>>> the install option on live CD login? It pops up for a few seconds in
>>> the message tray telling you this media can be used for a full
>>> install..and then the message lives in the message tray until
>>> dismissed.   Seems like the point of the message tray to me. Or am I
>>> missing the point
>> The one thing that a notification has going for it is that it doesn't
>> really require any design and the implementation is readily available.
>>
>> But a welcome screen which offers to install or run uninstalled makes
>> more sense to me, design-wise.
> Sorry for the thread archaeology, I'm catching up on two weeks of -devel
> after Beta crunch and travelling.
>
> One angle on this that didn't get pointed out, I guess because anaconda
> team apparently isn't reading, is that at least one person on the
> anaconda team - I forget who - hates liveinst with a passion and has
> been proposing forever to kill it and replace it with a choice on the
> live image boot menu between 'boot a live desktop' and 'install' (which
> would run anaconda in a locked-down environment, just like on the DVD /
> netinst). If that plan were to actually happen it would kinda supersede
> all the other suggestions, I think.

Actually that is exactly the opposite of what I'd like to see. I'd like 
to be able to run Anaconda from my F16 and install F17 on different 
partition for example. Why should I download some installation medium 
when I have already running system which is capable to run Anaconda?

Vit



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