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

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wednesday, April 29 2009, Warren Togami said:
> 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!

Yes, but at least it's written in python so that things can be
abstracted nicely rather than the horrors of shell :-)  At which point,
maybe it should have a rename.  But I'll leave that for Luke ;-)

Jeremy