On 11/27/2010 09:10 PM, Douglas McClendon wrote: > If you want fast, nothing beats a LiveCD/USB, particularly the way > fedora's livecd-tools does it (dd fs copy, with my convoluted dm thats not true. A bare metal install will finish before your livecd has finished booting. I have c5/node's build in just under 270 seconds from machine powerup - usb/optical media just cant shift data fast enough to first boot an environment then kickup an installed. ok, things might have changed in fedora13+; but I'd still like to see it being done. > optimization). If you want super-fast, throw a rebootless installer > (zyx-liveinstaller) on top of that. Oops, I just willfully spammed the .. and you lose any/all management ability from the standard distro-aware tools. Ofcourse, that does not matter if you don't need those tools anyway. - KB