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Yes, I am aware of the ALT CD. We cannot use it, as it is MUCH too slow. Because the alt cd installs each deb package individually, the installation takes much longer. The live CD is just a filecopy of the already-installed files, so it is way faster.
We actually used ALT CD for our first iteration of factory install, but it was pretty unmaintainable. The only way we could make it fast enough was to install a system, tar up the results, and then untar it in the factory. This ends up being very bad because of hardware detection that happens on install.
All in all, the live CD is the best choice of installer for us. The *only* problem with it so far is on some platforms where X does not work out of the box, we have to do some suboptimal workarounds (force vesa, then reconfigure X later.)