contact: Will Woods

preupgrade is great for upgrading but it requires internet access. if you have access to a DVD you should be able to upgrade too. we need a ui design for an app to handle this.

wwoods: e.g., upgrading your system thru anaconda is SCARY
wwoods: because there's a lot of knobs you can turn to destroy things
wwoods: but preupgrade is only used for upgrading, so i think it's less scary
in my opinion the generate-kickstart bits of preupgrade oughtta be on the DVD somewhere
such that you can pop in the DVD and launch.. something
wwoods: yeh! what might be nice is you pop in the dvd, and it asks if you want to install or upgrade, you pick upgrade and it works similar to preupgrade where u dont have to go thru anaconda's ui at all
that's trivial if the first stage runs on the system you're trying to upgrade - we write a little note that says "HEY ANACONDA UPGRADE THIS ONE"
IIRC that's really the only choice you need to make during upgrade
probably there's three cases:
1) no Fedora installed anywhere we can see. skip upgrade screen.
2) exactly one Fedora install. Present "We're gonna upgrade this: ..." with a "No, I want to wipe and reinstall" button
3) More than one. Same as 2), but with a "which system do you wanna upgrade" dropdown.
honestly it would be really, really simple to have a "Launch upgrade" helper app on the DVD
so when you insert the DVD a nautilus window is gonna pop up and it'll have a bunch of things and one "Install Fedora" item
etc. wouldn't be hard but alas I don't have much (any) time for preupgrade lately
buuut if you can help with some proposed UI / workflow stuff I can get some tickets filed and roadmap it out
and hopefully I can find people who do have time