In testing Soas in Nightly Composes I keep running into a problem with making the CD as a live CD and including features only needed for a liveinst install with Anaconda:

*1_) Running as booted LiveCD:*
Pop up for keychain password is unnecessary :
Current  behavior of booting live CD  (This occurs on every boot):
boots to Name______ pops up enter keychain password 7+times (does not appear to work but must be entered at least once to work) then it lets soas run [1] <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2339> f14(Laughlin) Sugar on a stick 4 Sugar 0.90.0 (Mango Lassi); use of color selector in CP/about me causes loss of f1 Jabber connectivity [2] <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2395> This occurs if you do not enter keychain password at 1st pop up login and when doing restart.

*2_)liveinst to HD (USB/SD):*
Starting HD install for first time:
Firstboot; smolt; user name and password; login at gdm using user name and password. Enter password for keychain; F3-ring of sugar.
2nd start of HD;
login at gdm with username and password. Go to f3 Ring Sugar. If you restart; go to gdm login screen username and password; F3-ring of sugar.

I suggest it is time to add *"Install to HD"* as the 2nd line on the grub boot menu of Soas. This would call liveinst directly (maybe with a password?) Then we could have different behavior for the first boot menu line which is Basically the

*"Try Soas with out touching Hard Drive" *

This option is currently offered by Ubuntu, openSUSE-edu, Trisquel etc.

This would require having a different build for running the LiveCD. removing; among others?;Keychain; anaconda: firstboot; firstboot-smolt, from the programs installed for liveCD use.

We would then be more in line with what other distributions do, and solve current problems with the .iso builds.

(An alternative would to be issue 2 Soas.iso's; an install and a live CD with different builds to address these issues)

Tom Gilliard
satellit

[1] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2339
[2]http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2395
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