LiveCDs like Knoppix and NetBSD 2.0 Live![torrent] nowadays seem better configured out-of-the-box than many distro installers. For example, the NetBSD liveCD is the only *nix that manages to run my PCMCIA 802.11 card without hours of painful configuration (recompiling the kernel, hunting down drivers, etc).
I would love to see a straitforward utility for installing the OS from the CD to the hard drive, not just copying the filesystem but automatically modifying the necessary config files.
As things are now, liveCDs let us test drive an OS/distro. If we like it then we need to download another CD(s) and go through a laborious install and configure process. This is fine with most setups, but is a nightmare for configuring non-standard hardware (namely PCMCIA wireless cards), especially when the liveCD works so well.
LiveCDs can be a better starting off point for installing OSs/distros than installer isos. So why not provide the option for the livecd to act as the installer?
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I would love to see a straitforward utility for installing the OS from the CD to the hard drive, not just copying the filesystem but automatically modifying the necessary config files.
As things are now, liveCDs let us test drive an OS/distro. If we like it then we need to download another CD(s) and go through a laborious install and configure process. This is fine with most setups, but is a nightmare for configuring non-standard hardware (namely PCMCIA wireless cards), especially when the liveCD works so well.
LiveCDs can be a better starting off point for installing OSs/distros than installer isos. So why not provide the option for the livecd to act as the installer?
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