On 01/23/2010 08:31 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 08:53 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > You can also use the upstream liveinst to install to a usb drive. You > > need a second stick (or a real liveCD) so that you boot the live > image > > off one and install to the other. I've done it before and it works > > well. > > Ah, didn't know there were two different tools. ZyX is also in Fedora, > and Warren Togami told me recently that the livecd-tools are currently > unmaintained. He's been doing some bug fixing, but has no time to do any > real development. When I asked live iso/usb questions on #fedora-devel, > none of the core developers seemed to know (or care) much about it :-( > > > liveinst is the official Fedora tool. Its part of anaconda. > > Separate from the tools issues, I guess it would be nice to our users if > we could provide a ready-to-use downloadable usb image which doesn't > require any special tool besides dd (or something like RAWRITE.EXE on > winblows). > > > dd or rawwrite isn't exactly what I would class as easy to use for the > average user. > > One problem with plain images is that you need to decide the size ahead > of time. The partition size is hard-coded in the DOS partition table. > Even if the partition table were flexible, ext2/3/4 needs to be re-sized > manually (although this could be done online and quickly on first boot). > > > That's the advantage of liveinst. Boot the live CD/Key and it deals with > all of that. As long as the key is large enough for the contents of the > livecd it will then expand out the filesystem to fill the install > destination as part of the procedure.
And it ought to go without saying, that zyx-liveinstaller, already included, does what liveinst does, but without the need to reboot afterwords. Hence why it was included in blueberry. But obviously anaconda/liveinst is more mature, so if you can get that working with soas, all the better. But myself, I like the rebootless :) -dmc _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
