I'd guess that running packages in a live environment would be rather difficult.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">alexander cox</b> <<a href="mailto:the.great.alexander.the.great@gmail.com">
the.great.alexander.the.great@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">""<br><span>><br></span>
<div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q">>The biggest problem is that the text installer uses packages, and<br>>installs from sets of packages to the hard drive. Very similar to
<br>>booting into single user mode, and then using apt-get to install<br>>*everything*. The Live CD does not contain packages in the same sense.<br> > The packages are already installed onto a compressed file system, and
<br>>the installer just copies files from one file system to another during<br>>install. In order to have both on one disk, you would need to use<br>>double the disk space, because all the packages would be on the CD
<br>>twice, once in the Live file system, and once in the apt repository.<br>><br></span>>-Matt<br></div><span></span>""<br> Is it possible to create a liveCD that runs off packages instead of the archive it is in now? Wouldn't it still be able to install *everything*?
<br> If not would it be possible to have some kind of extractor that reads that file and puts the necessary packages into RAM or something to do the text install<br>
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