Anaconda-devel September 2007

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[PATCH] use less things in /tmp
by Bill Nottingham 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

This switches various things to use /dev for device nodes instead of /tmp. Tested by installing on a box with both raid and LVM. I suppose long-term we'd switch to udev and just assume the device nodes are there. Bill

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anaconda / pungi with touchscreen
by Sean Langford 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hello, I am developing a fedora spin using pungi for a custom 'appliance' which uses a serial touchscreen interface; there is no keyboard nor mouse. I have written a small application which uses the touchscreen so the user can select either a full install or an upgrade. The application then writes the appropriate kickstart file to automate the anaconda installation. I have read the anaconda source code and have 2 questions I could not answer by looking at the code alone: 1) How can I launch my application before anaconda? I've seen references to /sbin/loader; but I don't understand how /sbin/loader starts anaconda. Is this hardcoded in the loader? Is there a config file that controls what application the loader starts? 2) A follow-up question; once getting the loader to start my application before anaconda, how would I configure the x server to also contain the configuration for the touchscreen? Thanks Sean

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[PATCH] rework image handling
by Bill Nottingham 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

The attached: 1) cleans up/simplifies readImageFromFile, removing options no longer used 2) introduces a readIconFromTheme, which pulls icons from the system theme 3) uses readIconFromTheme, where available, using XDG standard names Comments? Bill

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[PATCH 7/7] livecd: improve livecd install speed by about 20%: turboLiveInst/genMinInstDelta
by Douglas McClendon 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

the final piece, livecd generating an optomized image that the prior anaconda patch can take advantage of during a livecd install. see... https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2007-September/msg00101.… for all the good details... Enjoy... -dmc/jdog

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[PATCH 6/7] anaconda: liveinst.sh: support turboLiveInst/genMinInstDelta
by Douglas McClendon 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

this patch takes care of the anaconda side of taking advantage of livecd's created with a livecd-tools that has turboLiveInst/genMinInstDelta support. But the code does check for the legacy situation, and handles it gracefully. Thus this patch is safe even in the absence of the actual beneficial final patch to livecd-tools.

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[PATCH 5/7] anaconda: livecd.py: invoke resize2fs earlier
by Douglas McClendon 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

even if turboLiveInst/genMinInstDelta didn't depend on this, it is not a bad idea to move resize2fs earlier in the anaconda livecd backend. Though practically, this is entirely for the benefit of turboLiveInst.

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[PATCH 4/7] anaconda: livecd.py: use dumpe2fs for getLiveSizeMB
by Douglas McClendon 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

even if turboLiveInst/genMinInstDelta didn't depend on this, it is a good idea anyway for anaconda's livecd backend to use dumpe2fs to determine the size of data to copy during install, rather than looking at the size of the block device holding the filesystem.

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[PATCH 3/7] livecd: use dumpe2fs for resize2fsToMinimal instead of extra arg
by Douglas McClendon 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

logically there is no reason why resize2fsToMinimal should require an argument of the size in blocks of the filesystem that is passed in as it's first argument, when that can be calculated by pointing dumpe2fs at that first argument.

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[PATCH 2/7] livecd: remove ignore-deleted option
by Douglas McClendon 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

ignore-deleted isn't an option worth keeping around

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[PATCH 1/7] livecd: documentation typos
by Douglas McClendon 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

This series of 7 patches is a pure split of the prior turboLiveInst v3 monolithic patch. (i.e. produces identical tree, therefore I have done no further testing)

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Anaconda-devel September 2007