[Fedora-livecd-list] Laptop options for Live-CD

[Douglas McClendon]

Keith Roberts wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 
>> To: Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>, fedora-livecd-list at redhat.com
>> From: Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Laptop options for Live-CD
>>
>> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 14:24 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>> I'm not a builder myself atm, but would it be possible for
>>> the Live-CD not use power management on laptops? Or at least
>>> give the user an option of disabling that when booting from
>>> a laptop machine? Reason being is that my mouse jumps all
>>> over the place when some sort of Power Saving happens.
>>
>> If there's a kernel option for disabling it, you can pass it to the
>> kernel when booting from isolinux.
>>
>> But in general, it's not something that we want to be disabling -- it's
>> far better to get to the root of the problem and fix that instead
>>
>> Jeremy
> 
> I did not know it was possible to pass kernel options to the Live-CD? 
> AFAIR the CD just boots into Linux without offering me the option to set 
> parameters.


Perhaps the README in the root of the f8 livecd should include a section 
ala the 'knoppix cheatcodes'.  Maybe expand it or ammend it to html, 
that is displayed in an autolaunched firefox upon fedora user 
autologging in...

-dmc