Bug 24277

Summary: One cannot select a kernel flavour at install time
Product: Mageia Reporter: Herman Viaene <herman.viaene>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: marja11, thierry.vignaud
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 CVE:
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Description Herman Viaene 2019-02-01 10:07:12 CET 
Description of problem:
When installing on a x86-64 machine, there is no way one can force the installation to take the server kernel.
When installing on older 32-bit  hardware there is no way to force the installation to install the desktop586 i.s.o.the "normal" desktop.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Any

How reproducible:
All the time

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2019-02-03 09:47:03 CET 
Ah, indeed, I remember I didn't manage to find a way to install the desktop586 kernel either, when I needed to during Mageia install.

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
CC: (none) => marja11
Summary: One cannot select a kernel version at install time => One cannot select a kernel flavour at install time
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2019-02-03 20:01:08 CET 
Well, there's a way: auto_install with an auto_inst.cfg.pl file :-)

What's the point here anyway?
If one really doesn't want the default kernel, one can:
- go through Custom/individual pkg selection
- use auto_install as stated above

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 3 Herman Viaene 2019-02-04 11:22:56 CET 
@ Thierry
For autoinstall: either you need a previous installation to make the file (which I don't have, and who has???) , or would you imagine someone sitting and adding how many hundreds package names to such list???
And I tried Custom/individual pkg selection, but kernels are not listed there.