Plans for anaconda LVM/RAID support

Ken Dreyer ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com
Thu Oct 25 16:55:14 UTC 2012


On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:47:21AM -0500, David Lehman wrote:
>> > It means F18 GUI installation will be completely unusable for people
>> > requiring enterprise features but unable to write own kickstart
>> > themselves.
>> Such people need to either hire a sysadmin or fire their current one. If
>> you're doing things sufficiently advanced as to require enterprise
>> storage functionality you should have the capability to write a simple,
>> well-defined, well-documented plain text configuration file. Come on.
>
> It is often useful in enterprise settings to do non-kickstart installs while
> prototyping. *And*, people running Fedora in those settings probably *are*
> prototyping. So, this seems like an important use case to me.

I agree with this. It's also quite a simplification to say that
kickstart only involves writing a single text file :)

- Ken


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