[Fedora-livecd-list] Project goals and infrastructure...

[Alexander Larsson]

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:02 +1000, neville wrote:
> Hello all, another two cents worth,
> 
> I think it would be wise to choose at least one compression technology 
> and also use copy-on-write filesystems as this will allow maximum 
> useability and least change to the installed distribution. 
> 
> It would also be nice if the distro image generated for the CD was part 
> of the Fedora installation processes, the workstation image is not 
> suitable.  A custom distro image should developed which includes some of 
> the workstation and server set of RPMs and could be called the fedora 
> demo or live cd image.
> 
> The Xendemo CD is a good starting point as this would the CD start 
> multiple copies of Linux as well.  The startup scripts are easy to 
> understand and writing a new set of scripts for the Fedora livecd will 
> not take long.

This is an interesting idea. I know anaconda can run in a test mode
where it just installs into a chroot. You could use that to have a
super-easy graphical way to select what you want on your live cd. Like a
graphical installer that installs onto a live-cd.

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