Hoary Preview Live CD Review

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:14:56AM -0500, Tapeworm wrote:

> The Bad: Existing hard drive partitions do not automount like they did
> in Warty Live. Was this a design decision or an oversight? In Warty
> Live, all 3 of my NTFS partitions appeared in the Computer / Disks menu
> and in /mnt. They are understandably Read-Only but at least I could see
> them. The Places / Computer menu in Hoary Live only has CD-ROM and
> filesystem and /mnt is empty. Can this be changed before the Warty Live
> release to put things back the way they were? 

The Hoary live CD is a complete, ground-up redesign compared to the Warty
live CD.  It has several features that the Warty CD lacks, but it is also
missing a few that the Warty CD has (splash screen, mounting partitions,
etc.).  Hoary entered feature freeze about a month ago, and there wasn't
time to implement every feature that we would have liked.

The Hoary live CD works on a much wider range of hardware than the Warty
live CD, and in my opinion, this alone offsets the few features which didn't
make it into the release.

> The Ugly: Still no way of building a persistent home directory on
> removable media like my USB memory stick. There is a posting on how to do
> this in Warty-live, but things have changed and this really needs to be a
> no-brainer process. Not sure how Knoppix handles this... will research...

This is on the list for the release following Hoary.  I already have a
pretty good idea how it should work; it just needs to be specified,
implemented and tested.

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 - mdz