any drawbacks to using copy-nand and save-nand to install XO images

[Jim Gettys]

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 18:50 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:21:10PM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> 
> > I would argue that the existence of first-boot configuration changes is 
> > in itself a problem.
> 
> I thought a bit about this last night as I was falling asleep and I came
> to the realization that we would also do a better job of running in
> emulators if we reduced our dependence on fragile layouts and
> configuration data.
> 
> > Any persistent state that you really don't need is just a problem 
> > waiting to happen.

I agree....

Michael, I think it is time to get each of these into trac as a separate
item (the only thing that makes sense to me are the one time generated
keys)....
                                  - Jim

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Jim Gettys
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