DLoop comments

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 05:24:37PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> It seems prety straightforward to me.  The .deb explains where dpkg 
> should extract the files to on install.

No, the .deb actually contains these files.  It has a tarball inside.

> Doing a straight copy of the livecd to the target has a few problems:
> 
> 1) The user might not want to install _everything_ that is on the livecd

They can remove packages later.

> 2) The user might want to install more updated packages downloaded from 
> the network

They can install them later (this is already how the existing installer
works).

> 3) Some differences in configuration may be needed when installed to a 
> hard drive than when installed on the livecd

That's OK.

-- 
 - mdz