Merging Live and Install CDs

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:26:44PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:22:04PM +0100, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> > 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 ...
> 
> I did most of the infrastructure work necessary for this earlier today.

By "this", I of course mean a combination install/live DVD.

I believe there are also people working on a live CD installer, but this
will not supersede the install CD, which is simply more appropriate for
many use cases.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]