Re: ISO Snapshots

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik Paulsen Skaalerud wrote:

> > > I see that corecode has updated his snapshot-builder to only make live
> > >      
> cd's.
>  
>
> > > Is it possible to have both live iso's and regular install iso's
> > >      
> aviable?
>  
>
> > > I kind of planned to install DragonFly on my workstation on a second
> > >      
> hdd,
>  
>
> > > but I wish to skip the FreeBSD 4.8->DragonFly jump, and I really want to
> > > install via the regular way.
> > >      
> > The live cd is considered the regular way for now. Do you have special
> > requirements for using the "classic" install CD?
> >
> > Joerg
> >
> >    
>
> I dont think we should just drop the regular ISO's before we have an
> installsystem for the livecd..
>  
We did'nt just "drop" it. The kernel has become too large to fit onto 
the floppies
that the regular `make release` users, so that means to have the older 
`make release`
work again we'd have to re-work a lot of the older code which at this 
time is point
less since we can do installs via the live ISO.

> Well, I and alot of other users are used to install it the regular way. My
> problem is that I'm not well enough experienced to use fdisk/label etc
> manually, I only know how to install via regular sysinstall.
>  
Well, type `more /README` when booting off the live-cd for now to get 
install
docs. Were still a few months out from having an installer.

-DR