On 06/04/2010 05:35 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote:
For the next iteration of the LiveCD I would suggest omitting the
One more related installer suggestion, is zyx-liveinstaller. This is just me shilling my own project that has yet to gain serious traction, but I still find rebootless livecd installation very cool, and it is just 100kb or so.
Executive Summary: Like traditional fedora livecd installer, except instead of copying just the readonly livecd filesystem image to the target and then rebooting, it uses devicemapper mirror tricks to copy that image, as well as the live ram overlay into a new normal filesystem on disk, which is then already running for real, sans the need to reboot. Only 'real' difference is that until the next reboot, your rootfs is accessed via a dm-linear layer.
It's definitely far from enterprise-level polished, but it survived v2 of sugar-on-a-stick, without any serious issues (though I fear without any significant usage either). And it has extreme user warnings about beta quality.
Anyway, just a reminder that it exists, and may well prove useful and/or nifty for some number of centos livecd users.
The latest f13 build (v0.2.4) should work fine on the later versions of centos-5.X, or let me know if it doesn't.
To test out with an existing livecd, you can just download the rpm from f13_updates_ or my site, install it, and run zyx-liveinstaller from the commandline or system tools menu. There is zyx-liveinstaller-cli as well.
Also, if the following files exist, they will be used to 'theme' a bit-
/etc/zyx-liveinstaller.install.txt /etc/zyx-liveinstaller.banner.png
Cheers,
-dmc
netinstall option. This has caused a rather large support load on the fora (or forums if you prefer) from people who can't get it to work.
As netinstall is really most useful with a "perfect" network connection or local archive, and can be tricky to get right, it is just confusing a lot of the LiveCD "market segment". More sophisticated users will just grab the netinstall CD or use images/boot.iso. Removing it would also leave more room for useful apps.
Phil
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