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

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 03/24/2014 08:05 PM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
> 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

- and actually when you're installing from livecd you're installing an 
image, so the logic is already there..

--Jirka

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