On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 13:15 -0700, Jane Dogalt wrote:
--- Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 01:26 -0700, Jane Dogalt wrote:
> > An alternative to that (and I think both alternatives have their
> > usefulness) would be something which just does GUI partitioning, and
> > then installs the livecd system itself to the harddrive (mkfs's the
> > new partition, copies the squashfs contents, undoes the changes that
> > were made specifically for the livecd environment).
>
> Doing this is an extremely bad and dangerous proposition. There are way
> too many things that you can't really just "undo" from a live CD.
Not if the livecd generation tools are designed well. (including the
appropriate 'undo' information).
The entire reason you do huge chunks of the changes is due to the fact
that you have limited space with a live CD. It's hard to include undo
information for things you remove without including them, thus negating
the entire point of removing them.
Jeremy