Fedora 9 beta - livecd-iso-to-disk
Philip Ashmore
contact at philipashmore.com
Sat Mar 29 05:28:29 UTC 2008
Andrew Farris wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Philip
> Ashmore wrote:
>> After downloading Fedora-9-Beta-Live-KDE-i686.iso I mounted it using
>
>> I tried filing a bug report in RedHat/Bugzilla against "Fedora 9 Beta
>> KDE live CD" but I couldn't find an entry, so I'm posting here.
>
> While running the Live CD find out which package is providing that
> script, and file the bug against that package. Use rpm -qf
> ./path/to/script
>
>> Basically this script should be smarter in two ways.
>>
>> 1. Know if the partition is on a disk that already has grub installed
>> in the boot sector and just update the grub directory (easy?).
>
> Yes that should probably be done instead and the kernel install %post
> scriptlets should probably have everything that needs to know how to
> do it.
>
>> 2. Allow a "full install from ISO" to the specified partition and ask
>> questions afterward (harder?).
>
> Anaconda runtime should handle that use case, installing to disk while
> booted from Live CD is an anaconda job. Was there no 'Install'
> desktop launcher? I haven't booted an F9 beta live cd yet so I'm not
> sure whether that is there.
>
C'mon guys - it's a script that allows you to write the live-CD image to
a usb stick.
I used this script to write the live-CD image to a hard disk partition
and boot off it.
Philip
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