Proposed F19 Feature: New firstboot

[Martin Sivak]

Hi,

yes, all the screens are shared with the Anaconda installer and the internal data structure is closely tied to kickstart. This allows us to configure almost everything using kickstart and then dump the final kickstart for the admin to see (as we always did).

Headless is a bit harder, someone has to setup the users and root password. The init script supports it properly on s390, but not on the other platforms yet.

How do you think we should detect headless mode? If the system was installed using serial console, systemd will ensure that the text interface is accessible there (the default terminal device) I hope.

Martin 

----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:46:40AM +0000, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > Anaconda, initial-setup and Gnome Inital Experience will
> > communicate to ensure
> > the screens are not shown multiple times. So for example the root
> > password
> > setup or user creation process will be done only in one place,
> > depending on
> > the installed system.
> 
> Will it be possible to do all of the things within kickstart?
> 
> Will there be a text-mode interface?
> 
> Will the firstboot system be able to detect headless boots and do
> something
> sensible, or will such systems be stuck waiting for someone to attach
> and
> poke buttons?
> 
> 
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