Why not a livecd-debian-installer

[Michiel Sikma]

Op 19-jun-2006, om 19:12 heeft Héctor Rivas Gándara het volgende  
geschreven:

> 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

While we're on the discussion of installation, I'd like to mention  
that I find it impractical to force people to boot into the Live  
system before they can install (unless you get the "alternate" CD).  
Why shouldn't it be possible to install from the CD menu? It's a huge  
strain on my 400 MHz laptop to boot into a Live system as large as  
Ubuntu. It's solely a waste of time from my point of view; obviously  
you'd want people to be able to boot into the Live system right away  
without doing anything to their system, but in case of a (re)install  
by people who know what they're doing, it's just annoying.

I'm not sure how difficult it would be to add an "install" option in  
the CD menu, but I think that it would be a good idea to obsolete the  
"alternate" CD completely.

Michiel