Why not a livecd-debian-installer

Héctor Rivas Gándara hector at galiciasoftwarelibre.org
Mon Jun 19 18:12:13 BST 2006


Hi,

I think that is a good idea to incorporate debian-installer in the 
live-cd as an alternate installation method. The usuario 
cdrom-retriever.udeb that performs an debootstrap can be sustituted by 
an live-retriever.udeb that simply copies the content of the .squashfs 
file.

Later, if a good gtk-frontend for debconf is developted, it can be used 
as graphical installer.

I think that is a good alternative to ubiquity, allows install the 
system with only the livecd without load all the graphical system, and 
its the way to join efforts with the d-i development.

And it's not so dificult to do that, I recently created my own 
installer that uncompress an .tgz with a preinstalled/configured debian 
and configures the network and a pair of propietary packets. (But now 
I'm really busy, so I'll only comment the idea)

--
Atentamente,
Héctor Rivas



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