On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <[email protected] > wrote:
> On 30 August 2012 09:19, Steve Kowalik <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 30/08/12 13:58, [email protected] wrote: > >> Is it so difficoult to have both installer on the same CD and let the > >> user choose what he/she wants? In this way you won't have the problem > >> to create a separated.iso to test. > > > > Indeed, it is. Impossible, in fact. Ubiquity and the live system use a > > compressed filesystem to install (a "squashfs") which takes up a large > > portion of the space on the CD. > > > > The debian-installer has been modified to support a squashfs based > installation & server images have switched to squashfs based ISOs so > it is possible. > > This does increase image size, because some things need to be outside > of squashfs. > > This reduces the image count & time to build the whole set of images, > but not the amount of testing that needs to be performed as both > installers need to be exercised.\ > Unfortunately I don't think there is enough room on the desktop CD to include d-i with live-installer instead of base-installer - otherwise I'd advocated for such an approach since it would effectively allow us to retain installation via d-i. Ultimately, I'd rather see Ubiquity be able to boot from a minimal environment similar to d-i however. There is value in the installer being able to operate independently of the system actually being functional. From personal experience, I've spent hours debugging a Ubiquity installer issue that turned out to actually be an issue with a customization performed for one of PES's custom projects that affected the boot process and thus affected the installer. Regards, -- Cody A.W. Somerville Release Engineer Commercial Engineering Canonical Canada Ltd. Phone: +1 781 850 2087 Cell: +1 613 401 5141 Email: [email protected]
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