Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:13:07AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 07/26/2011 09:18 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > I've never used Debian Live. Would a Vbox of Debian Live in installed
> > mode be any different to an installed standard Debian?
>
> like i said, live-build can build images that are 'live enabled' or not.
> in the latter case, they are no different than regular debian installed
> with d-i as it *is* the regular debian.
Last I looked, live-build built read-only images, that could be
coupled with a read-write image (used via copy-on-write) for persistent
changes. This made it hard to upgrade initramfs (I think this was it),
which is fine for CD images, but not so good for real systems.
Has this changed?
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