2006/4/20, Andre Nogueira andre.nogueira.fedora@gmail.com:
Hi,
How about improvements to Anaconda?
Here are a few things...
- If you install from FTP or HTTP, you can only download from one mirror.
Why not ask the user if (s)he wants to add more mirrors, so several packages can be downloaded at the same time, from different mirrors (thus increasing download speed). It would also be useful if, for some reason, one mirror has a corrupted package.
why not just use the yum mirrorlist feature instead? 0 configuration then. especially if used in conjunction with the fastestmirror plugin it would be nice.
- When Anaconda is installing a package, it is not downloading the next
package. Why not continue downloading packages while installing downloaded packages?
- When Anaconda starts, ask the user if (s)he has a kickstart configuration
file on a pen drive or remote FTP/HTTP location (s)he'd like to use. This would make kickstart files much more user friendly.
I tried browsing through Bugzilla to see if any of these had already been suggested, and didn't find anything. However, I'm new to helping Fedora, so forgive me if I simply didn't search correctly...
Thanks,
Andre
On 4/20/06, Arthur Pemberton pemboa@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/20/06, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 17:46 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
A GUI utility which helps newbies get information that may be useful in helping them get answers on irc, forums, mailing lists etc, might be helpful.
Things like the output of: uname -a cat /proc/cpuinfo lsmod lspci lsusb tail /var/log/messages du -h free -h
Or other info such: current desktop environment current login manager
Sounds like a wrapper for sysreport which is available in Fedora too. Would be quite useful for the less technically inclined users.
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_80_456.shtm
Rahul
Sweet, didn't even know about that tool. Seems like something which should be a lot more visible.
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