Re: anaconda design mockups

David Lehman <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:06:25 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.anaconda.devel
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 16:34 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:14:24AM +0100, Garrett LeSage wrote:
> > So, what do you think?
> 
> Lots of good ideas. One note in specific... you mention that server
> will only be installed onto systems with no OS. This isn't
> necessarily
> the case. In some situations, the disk may be preloaded with some OS
> that should be overwritten. The other case is re-installation, which
> I
> think is going to be fairly common in any shop where people are
> installing servers one-by-one with Anaconda as one-offs. (In this
> case,
> reformatting / and preserving /home and /srv will be common.)
> 

Right. Just about any time you make an assumption to significantly
simplify storage you're going to be wrong. Sad but true.

David