[Fedora-livecd-list] pilgrim livecd work

[David Zeuthen]

On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 20:23 -0500, Jasper Hartline wrote:
> > You blatantly ignore the fact that we need such a tool anyway. Only
> > giving the users UI for for LVM / RAID setup in the installer is just
> > weird. Btw, the reason I'm writing this tool has nothing to do with Live
> > CD's - it's something we're working together on in upstream projects
> > like freedesktop.org, GNOME and KDE to do anyway.
> >   
> Yes, but it doesn't exist yet. This is the point you're missing.

It will. It's sometimes good in software design to take a few steps back
and look at the bigger picture.

> > Of course it is. You make the users download the bits twice and makes it
> > impossible to deliver an usable live CD in 700 MB.
> >   
> The only bits you'd have downloaded was the LiveCD.
> There is no duplication of downloading of material in this use case.
> If I'm overlooking your point or where there is some duplicity please 
> inform me.

The live cd contains the installed bits already, e.g. for example all
the X.org stuff, the GNOME stuff, /bin/bash or whatever is already
available and can be copied over to the hard disk.

    David