0.94 first impressions

[Michael Fulbright]

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 20:02, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> - Nice cursors in anaconda, although there was a pretty ugly
> standard-X11-black&white one for a while. Also during package
> install it was an arrow instead of some "I'm doing stuff" cursor, which is
> probably wrong. Will bugzilla in the morning :-)

This is known and I'm not sure we're going to fix it. Its sortof nasty.
Go ahead and and file it, maybe we've think of something clever to deal
with it.

> Ethernet config stuff in the anaconda doesn't allow the IP-less 
> config used by PPPoE that redhat-config-network does. You need to either
> give it an IP or tell it to use DHCP. Not sure what the best way to fix this
> is, maybe network configuration could be done in 
> firstboot+redhat-config-network, not anaconda? 
> 

Option #2. Though what you're asking for might not be too hard to do.

I'd like to change the networking configuration in anaconda to like it
used to be pre-7 I think, ie. you only configure the network devices
required to do the install. If you do a CD install you don't get asked
to configure networking at all. I think this makes more sense to be
something you do on firstboot. That way you can use the tool we've
designed specifically for the task, not a 1000 line python tool we
hacked into anaconda.

Of course I'm pretty fanatical about this concept - I'd like to make
anaconda install just enough software so you can then reboot and run
redhat-config-packages to choose all the remaining software you want.
That way we could put all our effort into that tool which you will use
many times, instead of the installer which you use once every many many
months.

> And now it's time for some sleep, too unconscious to do any understandable
> bug reports at this point ;-)

Sleep is for the dead - keep testing !!  Seriously thanks for the
feedback it really makes a difference.

Michael Fulbright
msf at redhat.com