* Mark or2uvma02@sneakemail.com [20051124 00:09]:
Maybe my explanation helps. Think about it. There's no other way to install a system with a live-cd. Unless you want to download all packages from the net again.
greets Jimmy
It's fairly simple. You boot the live CD. It has services you don't want on installed to the USB drive. So, the installer script, prior to copy-all, just invokes the CD's own package manager and un-installs the unwanted packages from the running CD system. Then it performs the copy-all to hard disk.
No, bad idea. Let's say you want to install grml again (on another disk/device) but don't want to remove for example apache this time. Won't work if it's already deleted in the running system itself. The only chance to restore the original state is to reboot. :-/
If you think you don't need the packages "foo, bar, blubs, blah" then just run 'apt-get remove foo bar blubs blah' - but it's on your own risk. Running it in the harddisk system is more safe.
Modifying the live-iso needs more "power" than accessing files in the chroot installed on harddisk. Removing files on a (basically) read-only medium where a overlay system manages read-write-tasks requires ressources.
Nothing extra to download, nothing extra to delete from the hard drive. All done with package management. Faster execution time and no bad error/warning messages.
The "bad error/warning messages" derives from debian package management and not from grml2hd! It does not matter whether you run this *before* starting grml2hd, *within* grml2hd or afterwards.
regards, -mika-