Glenn McGrath wrote: > What are the ideas ? > > I may be interested in working on them... The best ideas I've seen are: - debix (http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debix) - a udeb that turns on swap earlier, using a spare partition or drive, before the whole installer is loaded and before partitioning happens > Also as far as space on the root floppy goes, the lost+found directory > entry in the current filesystem should be removed. > > If the root filesystem type up for negotiation then romfs is smaller > than ext2. > > Is the only reason we need a writable filesystem so that the install > reoprt can be stored there ? Is that a permanent feature ? There are dozens of places where the installer writes to its filesystem. A few: - /etc/ files written by netcfg - cdebconf databases - logs - apt-install's queue - register-module's queue - anna/udpkg -- see shy jo
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