Re: 3.6 Feature: Initial setup

[Krzysztof Walo <krzysztof walo gmail com>]

On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 10:49 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 22:41 +0200, Krzysztof Walo wrote:
> 
> > Wouldn't it be better if it looked like this:
> > 1. Ask user necessary questions (language, name, time zone?)
> > 2. Launch desktop session
> > 3. Let user configure it
> > 4. Install system
> >         
> > 4th step would only require to setup partitions and copy user
> > configuration to hard drive - as few questions, as possible.
> 
> I agree with this - it's tricky though.  What we would need is a
> way to track the configuration made during the live phase and apply
> it after installation.  It's like the Sabayon problem.


I think if user's home directory is created before start of livecd
session, all is needed is to just copy it to hard drive, if user chooses
to install the system.

Step 1 creates user's home on livecd (squashfs). Step 4 copies it to
hard drive, including changes made in step 3. There might be few global
settings that need to be copied as well ie. NetworkManager.