On 2/12/07, Jonathan Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Joel > > Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: > > Since Squashfs 3.1 had been released, it now supports specifying "the > > filename or the directory within the Squashfs filesystem that is to be > > extracted, rather than always extracting the entire filesystem."[1] > > This allows the LiveCD to function in different ways rather than > > loading the entire desktop onto the memory. For example, make the > > LiveCD to load only the necessary files to run the Desktop, but only > > of limited applications. This may help breaking the minimum memory > > requirements of the LiveCD which is really big. Another approach is to > > create a RHGB/Firstboot like application that would only be used for > > installing the LiveCD onto the system, that works like the alternative > > install CD, but on X. > > The current Ubuntu live CD squashfs doesn't get loaded into memory at > the moment, it gets mounted and then files are read transparently from > the filesystem. > > As for the RHGB/Firstboot idea, I tend to agree with you. We already do > it in tuXlabs, where we have a dialog that pops up before the desktop > loads on the live CD, asking whether the user wants to install, or use > the LiveCD. This makes it possible to install using Ubiquity on a > machine with only 128MB RAM. > > -Jonathan >
Hi Jonathan! That is really nice work! Is it open source? will it be implemented on future Ubuntu LiveCD? Is the source code available for the chooser? > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- Carpe Diem -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
