[Fedora-livecd-list] Image options

[Douglas McClendon]

Jerry Vonau wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
>> Are there image options other than squashFS for the LiveCD?
>> I ask because building squashFS images on the PowerPC is
>> excruciatingly slow :-(
>>
> There is an undocumented option --skip-compression that should leave the 
> ext3fs.img file in LiveOS instead of placing it within squashfs.img.
> Think that would be a dvd only trick... or a barebones install on a cd.

Also relevant, is that iso9660 doesn't support sparse files, so there is 
some nasty overhead there.  Though there are ways to work around that if 
you were really interested (using squashfs but without compression, or 
nesting a sparse ext3 image in an unsparse one).

But now that I'm a full-time workin' man again, I certainly won't have 
time to implement any of that real soon.  :)

peace...

-dmc