Installing from Live CD is the new black?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Sun Dec 14 06:43:56 UTC 2008


On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Nicu Buculei wrote:
>>
>> Chris Lumens wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is it just me or doesn't everybody make their installs off the Live CD
>>>> these days?
>>>
>>> I do kind of wish everyone used live CDs, but that's probably never
>>> going to be the way it works.
>>
>> That's just not gonna happen. Live CD are so small, they can't hold even
>> OpenOffice.org (or hold it but sacrifice a lot of other much needed
>> applications).
>
> OpenOffice.org in a live cd is certainly possible. We do more locales
> instead but if you want a custom live cd to include all the packages YOU
> need, it takes about 20 minutes with a local mirror. Really easy.
>
> Rahul

Are there any up to date instructions on this? Wouldn't mind spinning
my own KDE Live USB

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