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