F10 beta from LiveCD

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 20:04:45 UTC 2008


>> A couple of queries about the F10 Beta live CD and installing to HDD from it.
>>
>> Firstly is it possible to enable ext4 from the LiveCD install?
>
> No -- the live install just copies the filesystem that's used from the
> live image to the target disk.  And since the source filesystem is
> ext3 ...
>
> While you could then enable extents, you're not going to get most of the
> advantages until all the files are rewritten

OK, I figured as much, I was actually wanting it for a /home dir. Is
that possible?

>> Secondly on an eeePC 901 the partitioning tool layout is a bit messed
>> up. I took a screen shot of it to file as a bug and saved it to the
>> "USB Stick" which was the device from which I had booted the LiveCD
>> but it didn't seem to stick around when I put the stick into another
>> machine to log the bug.
>
> This had been filed with Fedora 9 and I actually got around to fixing it
> up yesterday

Nice :-)

Cheers,
Peter




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