[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Peter;

Could you add this method and how to do it to the wiki : )

This sounds like an important method.

(I have a preliminary review of install methods at
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Downloads )

Tom Gilliard
satellit


Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>wrote:
>
>   
>> On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 15:31 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>     
>>> liveinst is the official Fedora tool. Its part of anaconda.
>>>       
>> [...]
>>     
>>> dd or rawwrite isn't exactly what I would class as easy to use for the
>>> average user.
>>>       
>> [...]
>>     
>>> That's the advantage of liveinst. Boot the live CD/Key and it deals
>>> with all of that. As long as the key is large enough for the contents
>>> of the livecd it will then expand out the filesystem to fill the
>>> install destination as part of the procedure.
>>>       
>> [...]
>>     
>>> That's much better than reinventing the wheel.
>>>
>>>       
>> I agree, but there's a "bootstrap" problem: people who want to crete a
>> bootable USB image for the first time do not have access to liveinst,
>> yet.
>>
>> How should the initial SoaS image be distributed? The ISO is one
>> possibility, but it forces users to burn a CD-ROM and boot it only once
>> in order to create the USB stick. Sounds dumb.
>>
>> Moreover, CD-ROMs and seem to be fading away very quickly. My new laptop
>> doesn't have a CD burner, and I'm not planning to carry around an
>> external unit.
>>     
>
>
> You can use livecd-iso-to-disk to put it onto a USB key so you don't need to
> burn a copy, and from there you can do liveinst to as many keys as you want.
> So you'll need a "master USB key" to create others but there is no need for
> a CD-ROM at all. I use this method all the time without issue. I don't own a
> CD/DV drive anymore, my work laptop has one which has been replaced with a
> battery.
>
> Peter
>
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