Installer request

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Tue Mar 29 04:42:55 UTC 2011


On 29/03/2011, at 4:28, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 03/28/11 00:20, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I would like it if the installer had an option to exit to live CD mode after installation.
>> 
>> The reason being that I have a tar file I want to splat onto the newly installed system residing on the USB stick the installer is on. In chroot mode I can't access it.
> 
> Sure, that's easy to do. I'll try to get it in today or tomorrow.

While I'm making wishes..

What do you think of using GPT UUIDs in fstab?

It does make the fstab rather ugly but makes the system more robust in the face of disk changes and so on..

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