<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <<a href="mailto:dmitrij.ledkov@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">dmitrij.ledkov@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">On 30 August 2012 09:19, Steve Kowalik <<a href="mailto:stevenk@ubuntu.com">stevenk@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: > On 30/08/12 13:58, <a href="mailto:a.grandi@gmail.com">a.grandi@gmail.com</a> wrote: >> Is it so difficoult to have both installer on the same CD and let the >> user choose what he/she wants? In this way you won't have the problem >> to create a separated.iso to test. > > Indeed, it is. Impossible, in fact. Ubiquity and the live system use a > compressed filesystem to install (a "squashfs") which takes up a large > portion of the space on the CD. > </div>The debian-installer has been modified to support a squashfs based installation & server images have switched to squashfs based ISOs so it is possible. This does increase image size, because some things need to be outside of squashfs. This reduces the image count & time to build the whole set of images, but not the amount of testing that needs to be performed as both installers need to be exercised.\ </blockquote><div> Unfortunately I don't think there is enough room on the desktop CD to include d-i with live-installer instead of base-installer - otherwise I'd advocated for such an approach since it would effectively allow us to retain installation via d-i. Ultimately, I'd rather see Ubiquity be able to boot from a minimal environment similar to d-i however. There is value in the installer being able to operate independently of the system actually being functional. From personal experience, I've spent hours debugging a Ubiquity installer issue that turned out to actually be an issue with a customization performed for one of PES's custom projects that affected the boot process and thus affected the installer. Regards, </div></div>-- Cody A.W. Somerville Release Engineer Commercial Engineering Canonical Canada Ltd. Phone: +1 781 850 2087 Cell: +1 613 401 5141 Email: <a href="mailto:cody.somerville@canonical.com" target="_blank">cody.somerville@canonical.com</a>