livecd-iso-to-xo for XO-1.5

Paul Fox pgf at laptop.org
Thu Jun 4 20:12:36 UTC 2009


chris wrote:
 > Hi Dan,
 > 
 >    > Raises some questions for later...in what form are we going to
 >    > use an initrd (our previous one, or a different one) and will it
 >    > support LABEL=
 > 
 > We're going to be obliged to ship our security work with XO-1.5.
 > Whether we use the old Debian initrd (which is seeming crufty and
 > hard to maintain) or move up to a more standard F11 initrd as a base
 > is still an open question -- I'd side with upgrading to F11, if we
 > can work out how to get it done.  (Part of it may involve converting
 > bootanim to be a plymouth plugin; another open question.)

which begs another question:  if we're already customizing fedora,
how much are we going to allow ourselves to customize it?  e.g.,
could we simply remove plymouth, and install bootanim, if that
makes sense?

i'd think we'd want the path-of-least-resistance solution in most cases.

paul
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