[CentOS-devel] LiveCD suggestion

Fri Jun 4 23:10:19 UTC 2010
Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

On 06/04/2010 06:57 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 04/06/2010 13:40, Phil Schaffner wrote:
>   
>> Manuel Wolfshant wrote on 06/04/2010 08:04 AM:
>> ...
>>     
>>> I'm more in favor of  improving the available docs rather than dropping
>>> the option. But then again, I am not active on the fora, only on IRC.
>>> Where we had our share of calls for support ( and thanks to one of those
>>> calls was the problem with the first release spotted and led to a fix).
>>>       
>> I'm all for improving the docs in any case. That should go to -docs if
>> we're going to discuss it.
>>     
>
> in addition to improving docs, it would also be quite cool to 
> pre-populate the questions asked by the netinstaller with same sane 
> defaults. 
As far as I have seen while being in #centos, most beginners' questions 
(in the context of netinstall) were more or less similar to "what should 
I put in the 'mirror' and 'path' fields ?". Can we patch anaconda so as 
to prepopulate those two without overloading any particular mirrors 
(maybe using somehow the output of mirrorlist ) ?

      Manuel