[node-devel] Storage Stuff, Installation Module and Anaconda

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 03/24/2014 05:09 PM, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> Hey,
>
> this has been discussed a couple of times over the last months (already!
> ): To use some parts of anaconda (python-blivet) in our storage and
> installer code-base.
>
> While investigating this a bit further on last Friday I started to
> wonder if we can't even use more parts of anaconda, basically ending in
> a thought where I wondered how much it would take to make anaconda
> capable of doing the Node installation.
>
>
> The biggest issue with anaconda right now is that the "modus operandi"
> is around files. Our method on the other hand is around installing
> images.
>
> If we can teach anaconda to install images then I could imagine the
> following workflow:
>
> 1. Our installer create a ks
> 2. anaconda does the installation based on ks
>
> So I would not actually expose anacondas UI.
> But - We could possibly also leverage other parts of anaconda, e.g.
> basic network configuration stuff, and maybe even more.
>
> I have not yet investigate how much more dependencies we'd be pulling
> in.
>
> It's not that I want to go down this way right now. It just came to my
> selection of possibilities.
>
> Greetings so far
> - fabian
>

Hi Fabian,
it's quite an interesting idea and it actually might be easier than you 
think. You should be able to create an rpm package from the image and 
just create anaconda install disc with that rpm on it and let anaconda 
do it's job without having to change it's backend to understand images.

--Jirka

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