Why not a livecd-debian-installer

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:12:13PM +0200, Héctor Rivas Gándara wrote:
> 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.

We'd have to crunch some numbers to be sure, but I don't think there is
space for d-i on the live CD.

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 - mdz