On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 18:56 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 14:34 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
> The basic method of writing live media needs to be dd. We can do
> persistence by having a very small partition at the end of the image and
> having the writing tool (if it's something more sophisticated than dd)
Fwiw, I would be happy if the live image was much more focused on
getting your system installed. It should basically boot into the
installer, and perhaps offer you an escape hatch for trying it out
uninstalled for a while. If persitence is complicating things, I don't
think ditching would affect any of the workstation use cases.
From what mjg59 said it doesn't really complicate anything too
drastically. I agree it's kind of a minority pursuit, though I've found
it useful occasionally (it was pretty useful for doing fedlet debugging
when I was running live images exclusively, for e.g.) I'd be fine with
it not being something we blocked releases on or anything, and
de-emphasizing it (even more than it currently is) on the documentation
etc. (Which is actually pretty much where we are right now).
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