--- 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.
I've
been through this before, I think even on this list...
Believe me that I realize the impact of using Microsoft to bolster my argument,
but that being said...
It appears Vista is taking my approach, and IMO it's the smartest thing they've
ever done-
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/24/1250220
Personally I can't wait until this becomes standard for the major linux
distros, with perhaps the extension of the rebootless version (i.e. just a
livedvd that boots, and can optionally be live-migrated to the hard disk, using
dm snapshot and mirror tricks, along with ext3 online resizing).
-jdog
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