""<br><span class="q" id="q_10ffd7aa06bde79e_0">><br></span><div style="direction: ltr;">>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>>-Matt<br></div><span class="sg"></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>