On 11/30/2009 09:16 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Once the kernel boots, it will see the USB drive as long as the
USB
> and USB storage modules are build into initrd.img. Once the kernel
> and the initial ramdisk are loaded, you are no longer using the BIOS
> for access.
But if I click on "Install on Hard Disk",
won't it look on the hard disk where vmlinuz and initrd have been copied
for the data to download?
No. Remember, the file system from the live CD is a compressed file
system. It is the uncompressed, working version of the file system
that is copied. If it just copied the compressed image, then updates
would quickly become a problem. You can not write to the compressed
file system, and using a persistent overlay, like you do when
running from the USB stick, is not a good option.
Mikkel
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