On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Patrice Guay
<patrice.guay(a)nanotechnologies.qc.ca> wrote:
Peter Scheie wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification. Is the 'liveinst' utility needed in order
> to install the image from the livecd to the hard drive? Or is it needed
> because anaconda isn't built to start an installation from an already
> running system (such as a running livecd session)? I assume it is the
> former, as the webpage says as much, but I wanted verify that I wasn't
> misunderstanding the requirements. (This *does* start drifting toward
> being an anaconda question, but it's all within the context of the
> livecd session.)
This is definitely a question related to anaconda. The liveinst utility was
added to anaconda in order to support installation from a LiveCD. You should
ask the package maintainers what are the limitations of their utility and
its normal usage.
<pedantic>
liveinst is purely a shell script to kick off anaconda with the
various arguments for "install off of a live system" mode
</pedantic>
Installing a live image using anaconda requires the anaconda changes
that went into Fedora 8 to do so -- you're not going to be able to get
away with easily getting those running on a CentOS 5 system. You
could hack up something to do the basic bits, but any of the, eg, help
with partitioning you get or otherwise isn't going to be there.
- Jeremy