Eric Stout wrote: > But main stream distros these days have a lot more tools available to them > than the LiveCD can even dream of (simple technological fact due to the > storage capacity of the medium; CD/DVD versus HD) and typically include a > very simple means of installing what tools you don't have. Installing > mdadm on the LiveCD two years ago was an outright pain compared to apt-get > install mdadm.
This speaks of other possibilities that could arise. The current CD can already be modified to boot from a USB drive or other HD. If we move to package management on the CD (mostly for the sake of development purposes) it wouldn't be difficult to allow users to add other non-standard (but pre-built and prepared) packages on request. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
