On 06/06/2010 07:29 AM, Patrice Guay wrote:
Douglas McClendon wrote:
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
The main issue I see regarding a live installation process is the fact that the LiveCD has been stripped from several files in order to reach the 700MB target. Language and documentation files are removed to give some space for OpenOffice.org. As a result, the LiveCD environment is different from the one obtained via the normal installation process. While this should not make a difference for English-speaking users, others may be confused by the missing files. This could result in more load for the support channels as they will have to explain why package xyz installed via the LiveCD is different from the same package installed via RPM.
I didn't know, but am not surprised, that you've had to make those kind of cuts (fedora has held a pretty tight line and avoided such cuts, but also can't squeeze in openoffice). Fair enough.
-dmc