Anaconda new UI testing: new snapshot available

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:18:42AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:20:01PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 17:42 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> > > 
> > > So, now one has to use kickstart, which is not all that simple, and has
> > > to be set up somewhere, to put in some BASIC Unix function.  All to
> > > support the inexperienced user who will probably be more inconvenienced
> > > than endangered by this anyway. 
> > 
> > > It's just more work for the sysadmin.
> > 
> > I'd rather expect any sysadmin worth their salt would be deploying via
> > scripts, not interactively. Which is what kickstart is - it's just the
> > way you do a scripted install.
> 
> Not necessarily.  There are all sorts of reasons one wouldn't, for
> example, small companies with widely varying needs in individual
> servers.

Even still, I hope the small companies are able to reproduce their install
should the system they are using fail.  We write out /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
for this purpose and with some modifications on the part of the admin, you
can have a kickstart file that will reproduce the set up that probably took
you days to arrive at.  But that's just me.  I do this for my systems for my
own disaster recovery purposes.  It's really pretty simple and not weird and
scary complicated like people want to think it is.

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David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Supervisor, Installer Engineering Team
Red Hat, Inc. | Westford, MA | EST5EDT