revisor

#219 RFE: Standard install to separate root
Closed: Invalid Opened by cra@wpi.edu.

Closed: Invalid
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Allow creating a standard system install to a separate root which could then be booted as normal. An initial implementation could use a pre-mounted filesystem on e.g. /mnt/new-fedora-install which would allow flexibility in how the filesystem is manually created. A future enhancement could allow partitioning from within revisor itself, while still allowing the flexibility of manual filesystem creation. Example use cases:

  1. Keep two LVM VG's or set of LV's. Run Fedora N on one, use Revisor to install Fedora N+1 on the other. Reboot to Fedora N+1. Repeat by replacing Fedora N with Fedora N+2 when it becomes available. This allows for always doing fresh installs and having a backup to fall back to in case of trouble.

  2. Install to targets that Anaconda doesn't support yet, such as an encrypted root filesystem with LUKS on LVM.

I'm not sure this is in-scope for the Revisor application, rather then having two kickstart files documented very well. I see no use-case for this feature being in Revisor, but I'm not rejecting the request, so if you have a use case, please reopen the ticket and elaborate some more. You're welcome to discuss it on our mailing list as well.

I'm not sure this is in-scope for the Revisor application, rather then having two kickstart files documented very well. I see no use-case for this feature being in Revisor, but I'm not rejecting the request, so if you have a use case, please reopen the ticket and elaborate some more. You're welcome to discuss it on our mailing list as well.

Metadata Update from @cra@wpi.edu:
- Issue set to the milestone: Future Release
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