I'd guess that running packages in a live environment would be rather difficult.
On 1/8/07, alexander cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"" > >The biggest problem is that the text installer uses packages, and >installs from sets of packages to the hard drive. Very similar to >booting into single user mode, and then using apt-get to install >*everything*. The Live CD does not contain packages in the same sense. > The packages are already installed onto a compressed file system, and >the installer just copies files from one file system to another during >install. In order to have both on one disk, you would need to use >double the disk space, because all the packages would be on the CD >twice, once in the Live file system, and once in the apt repository. > >-Matt "" Is it possible to create a liveCD that runs off packages instead of the archive it is in now? Wouldn't it still be able to install *everything*? If not would it be possible to have some kind of extractor that reads that file and puts the necessary packages into RAM or something to do the text install -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
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