Re: liveDVD

[Max Herrgaard <herrgaard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon skrev:
>     I got the DVD burned and it booted up just fine with the default UP
>     kernel on my test box!  I was able to boot it from my external USB DVD
>     drive as well, which is saying something.
>
>     I wasn't able to test the install because I am still testing some
>     other stuff on the box in question, so I can't overwrite my HD just
>     yet, but it went right into X and the graphical UI.  I was able to
>     dhclient-up my network and play around with firefox.
>
>     This is very cool stuff!  I'm wondering how much interest Louisa has
>     in continuing to polish it up and add even more packages and UI options,
>     some automatic network setup, etc, for our end-of-year 2.2 release!
>     It's ok if you don't have time.  If not I'll open it up to all the
>     developers once Sascha commits the work.
>
> 						-Matt

The install still needs some polishing. I think something like etc.hdd 
from the live cd should be used. I guess right now everything is just 
copied. This means you have to do some manual cleaning in /etc at first 
boot, remove /etc/issue, remove livedvd-specific settings in rc.conf, 
touch syslogd's files in /var/log, etc etc.

About the boot loader installed. I don't think we should include boot 
options for SMP/NOAPIC kernels since they aren't installed to hdd.

This is just some minor issues with the install I guess... The live 
environment on the other hand is really good, thanks Louisa!


  -Max