Polish boot installer behaviour (USB and cdrom)

[martin.langhoff]

for the xs-0.5 release anaconda-runtime is not particularly friendly when running from usb stick. Users have to manually enter paths to ks.cfg and the iso directory.

And we have to include an iso rather than an unpacked repo.

Hopefully these limitations will be fixed in the near future.

Install from USB disk: only ISO picked up https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461548

Install from USB disk: Awkward to provide a ks.cfg https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461549

[martin.langhoff]

From #8365

Ideally, we replace the boot menu in the installer at pungi/revisor boot time with one that says...

Install with XS settings interactively (ks = interactive.ks) Install with XS settings automatically [Warning! Will reformat your disks]

[[ the normal install boot options ]]

this can also used as a workaround to the awkward USB-disk issues with ks files...

[martin.langhoff]

I think the menu should be

• Interactive install (sets ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg)
• Interactive install/upgrade, text mode (sets: test ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg upgradeany)
• Fully automated install (sets ks=cdrom:/ks-auto.cfg - generate it removing the 'insteractive' opt)
• ... the std options, rescue, memtest...

Reasons:

• Upgrades with GUI crash (anaconda GUI bug) so we only mention upgrade on a text install
• earlier XS builds are still set to 'fedora' product - as the product name does not match, we need to say 'upgradeany' for anaconda to offer an upgrade.

After xs-0.5 we can segregate the 'upgradeany' option to a separate "Interactive install/upgrade of easly XS, or other".

We also need to change the mkusbinstalelr script to rewrite the 'cdrom' line to 'hd:sdb1' to make it more likely that it'll just work with usb disks. It should also add a line to point to the iso directory...

[martin.langhoff]

BTW, we might need to patch revisor slightly to add the second kickstart file :-)

[martin.langhoff]

The relevant code and scripts are in

git://dev.laptop.org/projects/xs-livecd - look at the Makefile and the 'revisor' directory...