Merging Live and Install CDs

[Brian Sutherland]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:25:11PM +0530, Sridhar Ratna wrote:
> Why not have single CD that does boot lively and can be installed to
> hard disk, instead of having two?

If it could be done, I think it would be done.

A LiveCD contains the packages as if they were installed on a hard disk
and a Install cd contains uninstalled packages. There is just not enough
space on a cd for both.

However, on a DVD ...

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