[Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora Core Ofiicial LiveCD and DVD media

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue Jan 17 17:35:13 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:54 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Live CD's like Kanotix or Memphis allow direct installation to the hard 
> disk from the Live CD. That would another way to do an Fedora 
> Installation.Anyone can mix and match packages from Fedora Core ane 
> Extras repositories and create a Live cd and distribute it as a formal 
> installation of Fedora .  A specific use case would be for someone to 
> create a Fedora SELinux MCS policy live cd for a security presentation 
> and then a do installation to the hard disk if necessary.

The problem is that for a live CD, you need to make changes to some of
the stuff that's installed and you definitely want to, eg, nuke the
rpmdb (because that's just wasted space).  

I really don't see this as a convincingly interesting use case.

Jeremy




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