[Fedora-livecd-list] hdd installs from livecd patch - where?

[Jane Dogalt]

--- Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 01:26 -0700, Jane Dogalt wrote:
> > An alternative to that (and I think both alternatives have their
> > usefulness) would be something which just does GUI partitioning, and
> > then installs the livecd system itself to the harddrive (mkfs's the
> > new partition, copies the squashfs contents, undoes the changes that
> > were made specifically for the livecd environment). 
> 
> Doing this is an extremely bad and dangerous proposition.  There are way
> too many things that you can't really just "undo" from a live CD.  

Not if the livecd generation tools are designed well.  (including the
appropriate 'undo' information).

-jdog


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