[Fedora-livecd-list] hdd installs from livecd patch - where?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 13:15 -0700, Jane Dogalt wrote:
> --- Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 01:26 -0700, Jane Dogalt wrote:
> > > An alternative to that (and I think both alternatives have their
> > > usefulness) would be something which just does GUI partitioning, and
> > > then installs the livecd system itself to the harddrive (mkfs's the
> > > new partition, copies the squashfs contents, undoes the changes that
> > > were made specifically for the livecd environment). 
> > 
> > Doing this is an extremely bad and dangerous proposition.  There are way
> > too many things that you can't really just "undo" from a live CD.  
> 
> Not if the livecd generation tools are designed well.  (including the
> appropriate 'undo' information).

The entire reason you do huge chunks of the changes is due to the fact
that you have limited space with a live CD.  It's hard to include undo
information for things you remove without including them, thus negating
the entire point of removing them.

Jeremy