Patrice Guay wrote: > Douglas McClendon wrote: >> Patrice Guay wrote: >>> Phil Schaffner wrote: >>>> What help do you need on >>>> getting persistence working, or on LiveCD development in general? >>>> >>> For the persistence feature, I am looking for a set of patches that >>> apply for the current livecd-tools package. I am currently comparing >>> livecd-tools 015 and 014. Since the persistence feature was added in the >>> 015 version, I will try to extract the required patches from the >>> differences between both versions. Any help on this front would be >>> appreciated. Ok. I'll take a look at the livecd-tools here- https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/wiki/GetToolset and at the fedora 14->15 diff, and see if I can't put something together for you. >> Also, if I could convince you to squeeze in another ~100kb package into >> the LiveCD, it would allow an experimental 'rebootless installation' in >> addition to the traditional and stable rebootful kind provided by anaconda. >> > > The current CentOS LiveCD doesn't support installation from the live > media. This feature requires a newer version of the anaconda package > than the one provided by the CentOS 5 official tree (liveinst binary). > Since CentOS is supporting its packages for 7 years, introducing a new > version of a critial package such as anaconda and providing support for > it would be unrealistic. > > However, I tested and documented the installation from a live media: > https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/wiki/InstallToHardDrive > > Maybe this feature could be added to the 'unsupported' branch of the > CentOS LiveCD project. Makes sense. Are there any plans to provide a download/torrent of such a spin so users don't have to build it themselves? -dmc