[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] Make USB disk into full DVD installer

[Warren Togami]

On 04/29/2009 10:15 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 28 2009, Warren Togami said:
>> This patch allows livecd-iso-to-disk.sh to detect if the specified .iso
>> image is an Anaconda DVD installer.  If so, it copies it to the USB disk
>> and configures syslinux to boot it.  Anaconda will automatically find
>> the DVD iso on the USB stick and install from it.
>>
>> Requires Fedora 11 Preview DVD iso and later.
>
> So I've been thinking about this all day and I really don't know that it
> makes sense.  The script is explicitly for *live* images (it's in the
> name! :-) and making it support more than that is just going to
> complicate things.  What happens when someone then wants it to support
> Ubuntu images or something else?
>
> Also, I'm hoping to stop adding functionality to the shell script at
> some point as liveusb-creator really should be preferred for most cases,
> although it's command line mode needs some work
>

liveusb-creator has live in its name too!

OK, I'll write a separate script dedicated to this and a patch for 
liveusb-creator too.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com