[SoaS] Problem with zyx-liveinstaller on SoaS3-200909271154.iso = Fonts too big, screen size too small to use

[Douglas McClendon]

Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
> SoaS3-200909271154.iso display is too magnified.
> Cannot access all of page for formating in zyx-live installer
> 
> The font size so large and display in browse so small. Have to use 
> reduce 3-4 times to see all of wiki in browse. No size adjustments or 
> sliders available in zyx-liveinstaller.

Sebastian knows about this, and someone (maybe you?) already mentioned 
not being able to work around it with Xresources.  As you mention with 
the wiki, this is a global problem/regression.  I could go to some 
effort to make the fonts smaller or adjustable, but obviously it needs 
to be resolved globally.

Also, the latest build that sebastian pointed out, asside from the font 
issue, should once again be installable with zyx-liveinstaller.  If you 
boot from livecd and install, you won't be able to eject due to some F12 
changes that require another small change in zyx-liveinstaller.

On a completely random note, since I don't have time to get deeply 
involved in the interesting discussions going on, I think it is worth 
highlighting the new isohybrid feature of LiveCD/USB that is new in 
Fedora 12.  Basically it sounds like a clever addition to sys/isolinux 
that allows you to now dd the iso image to usb, and have it work 
automatically, bypassing the livecd-iso-to-disk script.  I suspect it 
doesn't support persistence, however I had a pretty interesting idea 
last night about how to use the rebootless installation devicemapper 
live migration technique to allow persistence to be optionally 
created/enabled after boot of the LiveOS, instead of at LiveUSB creation 
time.  And I think it can work with this new isohybrid mode.

On another random note, my $0.02 is that the fedora based soas should be 
referred to as a 'derivative distribution' or 'fedora derived 
distribution'.  That captures the scope of both how it is a 
distribution, and yet does not require the traditional level of support 
and development of a 'non-derived distribution' (as if there really is 
such a thing anymore, but here we mean 'lightly derived distribution').

-dmc