Re: OT: install from a live! cdrom
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:38:59PM +0800, zhaoway wrote:
> There're already 2-3 versions of modified Debian system runs directly
> on CDROMs, i.e. Live! CDROMs. ;-) AFAIK, one is Gibraltar, a firewall
> project, a read-only system is interesting in this place; the other is
> DemoLinux, as the name suggests; the third maybe is from bootcd Debian
> package, which copies a normal Debian system to the CDROM, and runs
> there.
>
> Will the debian-installer be capable of installing from a Live! CDROM
> system to the harddisk. i.e. not copying from .debs but copying from a
> running system. And the result be the same as install the normal way
> to the user. (Forgive my English.)
The SPARC/UltraSPARC CD's boot from a live iso9660 filesystem. Although it
is still limited to the mini-tools found on the root disk of a normal
install.
Joey, are there plans to support a broader range of tools on a live CD
image with the new project? I never thought about it during all the
discussion, but it would be nice to have a CD image that uses normal .deb
tools (fileutils, vim, emacs for the insane, perhaps a compiler, a larger
set of recovery tools, etc..).
Ben
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