[SoaS] Testing liveinst in SoaS-3

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> yesterday we evaluated a nightly compose of SoaS-3 on a Toshiba laptop
>> of one of our teacher trainers.
>>
>> Hardware support was perfect and the overall impression was very good.
>>     
>
>   
Sebastian;

zyx-liveinstaller (now available by yum install in f13)
gedit
gparted

and SugarClone
http://people.sugarlabs.org/fgrose/SugarClone

should be added to the soas spin ASAP

These will provide much greater flexibility for installs to USB/HD

Tom Gilliard
satellit
> I'm glad to hear that. I'm really looking forward to this release.
>
>   
>> However, installation to hard drive with liveinst could use some tuning:
>>
>>
>>  * installer asks for way too many technical questions such as hostname,
>>   root password... Most of these should be unnecessary for SoaS.
>>
>>  * By default, liveinst tries to create a complicated partition layout
>>   using LVM + swap + boot + root. Just root should be enough on any
>>   computer which can already boot SoaS just fine from USB.
>>     
>
> Both of these points can be swapped out by providing the liveinst
> command (or was it the anaconda one? liveinst calls anaconda, so that
> should work anyway) with a kickstart file in which such things might
> be predefined.
>
> If this is something we really want, I could probably look into it as
> part of my GSoC, I guess.
>
>   
>>  * After installation, firstboot bothers the user with more silly
>>   questions. The firstboot package could probably be uninstalled.
>>     
>
> Either that or branded and made more useful - it used to provide the
> ability to do the keyboard selection before logging in which I think
> is pretty sane, but apparently this got ripped out by upstream because
> of some regressions a couple of releases ago.
>
> So in its current state, I guess you're right.
>
>   
>>  * No automatic login after installation. You get GDM and you have to
>>   key-in a password, which is very un-sweet :-/
>>     
>
> We could throw that in the kickstart file, too.
>
>   
>>  * After installation, sudo does not work out of the box. (this is one
>>   of the major annoyances of Fedora, it should be fixed upstream too)
>>     
>
> It doesn't work on the live image out of the box either, from what I
> recall. You've got a point there, but this is indeed one of Fedora's
> decisions as upstream.
>
>   
>> I'll follow up with additional comments as we deploy SoaS on more
>> computers and collect feedback from more formadores.
>>     
>
> Thank you! This is really appreciated! :)
>
> --Sebastian
>
>   
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