Re: Re: Fedora 9 beta - livecd-iso-to-disk

[Philip Ashmore <contact philipashmore com>]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Philip 
> Ashmore wrote:
> > After downloading Fedora-9-Beta-Live-KDE-i686.iso I mounted it using 
>
> > I tried filing a bug report in RedHat/Bugzilla against "Fedora 9 Beta 
> > KDE live CD" but I couldn't find an entry, so I'm posting here.
>
> While running the Live CD find out which package is providing that 
> script, and file the bug against that package.  Use rpm -qf 
> ./path/to/script
>
> > Basically this script should be smarter in two ways.
> >
> > 1. Know if the partition is on a disk that already has grub installed 
> > in the boot sector and just update the grub directory (easy?).
>
> Yes that should probably be done instead and the kernel install %post 
> scriptlets should probably have everything that needs to know how to 
> do it.
>
> > 2. Allow a "full install from ISO" to the specified partition and ask 
> > questions afterward (harder?).
>
> Anaconda runtime should handle that use case, installing to disk while 
> booted from Live CD is an anaconda job.  Was there no 'Install' 
> desktop launcher?  I haven't booted an F9 beta live cd yet so I'm not 
> sure whether that is there.
C'mon guys - it's a script that allows you to write the live-CD image to 
a usb stick.
I used this script to write the live-CD image to a hard disk partition 
and boot off it.

Philip