Why not a livecd-debian-installer

[Michiel Sikma]

Op 20-jun-2006, om 10:06 heeft Ivan Krstic het volgende geschreven:

> Michiel Sikma wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The reason we traditionally had separate live and (d-i) install  
> media is
> because unifying them is highly impractical. 400 MHz laptops aren't  
> the
> use case for which it's reasonable to optimize the installation these
> days; it's not just the installation, either -- you might want to try
> Xubuntu or investigate similar lightweight environments.
>
> -- 
> Ivan Krstic <krstic at fas.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D
>

That's true, but do people really need to boot into a Live system  
when they want to reinstall on any given computer? It would seem like  
a logical shortcut to be able to skip the Live booting.

Michiel