Why not a livecd-debian-installer

Ivan Krstic krstic at fas.harvard.edu
Tue Jun 20 10:01:36 BST 2006


Michiel Sikma wrote:
> Perhaps there should be a possibility of booting into a stripped down
> version of the system that doesn't load any window manager but directly
> loads the installer on an otherwise empty screen, simply for speed
> purposes; it simply seems a little unnecessary to load the entire system
> in case the person installing it doesn't need to evaluate Ubuntu before
> deciding to do so.

Ah, okay. That's a valid point. Colin would know specifically what
session components Ubiquity depends on, but I suspect this can be done
without too much effort; I'll make sure it gets brought up at one of the
BoFs in the next few days.

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