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== Summary ==

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overlay fs = "sorry, can't write your file and I just corrupted everything you ever wrote to the overlay".

Our current thinking is that this goal is achievable with a bit of scripting that takes the livecd-tools .iso image we get now and...

# creates a pre-partitioned disk image (cue loads of partition / cylinder /etc. nuances here)

# unrolls the livecd-tools' nested filesystems and copies the contents to the disk image from #1

# does any hacking of the filesystem contents necessary to remove any undesirable assumptions about the livecd-tools' filesystem configuration.

== Benefit to SoaS ==

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== Documentation ==

''Is there upstream documentation on this feature, or notes you have written yourself? Has this topic been discussed in the mailing list or during a meeting? Link to that material here so other interested developers can get involved.''

The below links are not sorted, but are here for reference when this feature proposal is being written up in more detail. Not all of them may be useful, as a warning for the next person to tackle this page. [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] 19:04, 11 June 2010 (EDT)

* http://cgit.sugarlabs.org/soas/mainline/tree/make_fake_device.sh?h=blueberry#n44

* http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2010-January/000715.html

* http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2010-January/000654.html

* http://cgit.sugarlabs.org/soas/mainline/tree/livecd-iso-to-bootable-tree.sh?h=blueberry

* http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2010-January/000656.html

* http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2010-January/000683.html

== Release Notes ==

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 == Summary ==
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 overlay fs = "sorry, can't write your file and I just corrupted everything you ever wrote to the overlay".
+Our current thinking is that this goal is achievable with a bit of scripting that takes the livecd-tools .iso image we get now and...
+# creates a pre-partitioned disk image (cue loads of partition / cylinder /etc. nuances here)
+# unrolls the livecd-tools' nested filesystems and copies the contents to the disk image from #1
+# does any hacking of the filesystem contents necessary to remove any undesirable assumptions about the livecd-tools' filesystem configuration.
 == Benefit to SoaS ==
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 == Documentation ==
 ''Is there upstream documentation on this feature, or notes you have written yourself?  Has this topic been discussed in the mailing list or during a meeting? Link to that material here so other interested developers can get involved.''
+The below links are not sorted, but are here for reference when this feature proposal is being written up in more detail. Not all of them may be useful, as a warning for the next person to tackle this page. [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] 19:04, 11 June 2010 (EDT)
+* http://cgit.sugarlabs.org/soas/mainline/tree/make_fake_device.sh?h=blueberry#n44
+* http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2010-January/000715.html
+* http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2010-January/000654.html
+* http://cgit.sugarlabs.org/soas/mainline/tree/livecd-iso-to-bootable-tree.sh?h=blueberry
+* http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2010-January/000656.html
+* http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2010-January/000683.html
 == Release Notes ==