Why not a livecd-debian-installer

[Samuel]

I'm pretty sure ubiquity includes a text/curses based frontend, but I
don't think its as usable as the GTK or QT ones yet... and +1, having
only one CD would be a lot more convenient (and cost less for
Canonical?)

Samuel

On 6/20/06, Héctor Rivas Gándara <hector at galiciasoftwarelibre.org> wrote:
>
> El 20/06/2006, a las 11:03, Ivan Krstic escribió:
>
> > Ivan Krstic wrote:
> >> If so, see my point about the impracticality of uniting the live and
> >> install CDs. The curses-based installer doesn't exist on the live CD,
> >> so
> >> we can't provide a shortcut to it.
>
> Sorry, I was not clear enough.
>
> I wonder why is not possible include the curses-based installer. It's
> only necesary build a new installer (the udeb package) for debian
> installer that dumps the live CD content into the target fs.
>
> In space it suposses only add a new initrd image smaller than 5MB.
> About the shortcut, it can be called initrd_d-i.gz, and gfxboot can
> load it setting initrd=initrd_d-i.gz in the command line.
>
> --
> Atentamente,
> Héctor Rivas
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