Anaconda is getting a new suit (Fedora Community Blog)

Posted Jan 13, 2022 3:18 UTC (Thu) by epg (guest, #34047)
In reply to: Anaconda is getting a new suit (Fedora Community Blog) by bartoc
Parent article: Anaconda is getting a new suit (Fedora Community Blog)

We had this in PGI!

"Alternatively, you can run the graphical interface even when the target machine's video hardware is not supported by the XFree86 X server; simply set the display boot parameter and run the installer on an X server elsewhere on your local network."

https://web.archive.org/web/20031218123658/http://hackers...

Pretty sure Branden Robinson came up with that idea when we were at the office way too late one night, and that we were the first to do it...

Anaconda is getting a new suit (Fedora Community Blog)

Posted Jan 24, 2022 17:59 UTC (Mon) by branden (guest, #7029) [Link]

Aww, shucks. Thanks, Eric.

Reading through that manual (I think I wrote a lot of it?) brings back tons of memories.

It wasn't hard to do the remote X thing--that's one of the things the protocol was designed for.

I remember the main thing Ian Murdock having to say about our installer was that it looked like a "shoddy product". Good times.