On 08/08/2012 05:43 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
Funnily enough downloading a 3.6GB ISO to answer a simple question
isn't normally my first response. Someone must know the answer. In any case if the
images are the same as you say (you've done this yourself?) it's not going to tell
me what the difference is. Or indeed that there's any difference, and then the only
way to test that is to burn them image and try it. Which still doesn't explain
what's going on.
Sorry to say that downloading 4GB of stuff to answer simple questions is often *my* first
inclination. Only because I enjoy getting my hands dirty and finding things out for
myself. Another reason for doing it myself is actually covered in your paragraph above.
You've asked "you've done this yourself?". Sometimes, when I see
answers here, I ask myself the same question.
So, yes.... I've done it myself. Because I feel "more" certain when I do
the work myself...
/dev/loop0 619126 619126 0 100% /mnt/iso (LiveCD)
/dev/loop1 3717164 3717164 0 100% /mnt/iso2 (DVD)
/dev/loop2 603008 603008 0 100% /mnt/sq (LiveCD
squashfs.img)
FWIW, you *don't* need to burn the image. Like I said, you loop mount it.
> If you boot the LiveCD, then hit esc to get to the boot prompt
you can type "linux0 text" and all that will do is boot the LiveCD image since
that is the way the CD is designed.
>
In fact, linux0 is the name of a menu option in the boot loader, which
starts to explain some things. The earlier discussion in this thread
focused on kernel images.
The kernel images are the same as well....
egreshko@meimei isolinux]$ diff -s /mnt/iso/isolinux/vmlinuz0 /mnt/iso2/isolinux/vmlinuz
Files /mnt/iso/isolinux/vmlinuz0 and /mnt/iso2/isolinux/vmlinuz are identical
> There isn't an option to do an Install from the LiveCD in the
same manner as from the DVD. I suppose I could see how you may get that impression from
the documentation link you've provided.
Partially of course because that's exactly what it does say. I'm not
being obtuse: it lists all the different media and then goes on to
explain the graphical interface and the additional boot options. No
distinction is made.
In all the releases of Fedora DVD and LiveCD, I can't recall this issue being brought
up until now.
> Feel free to propose a correction to the documentation.
>
I know nearly enough now to do so, but did getting the information to
do that really have to involve pulling nails?
Sometimes things are not easy. Oh, and the proper idiom is "like pulling
teeth". :-) :-)
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