[SoaS] Direct SoaS test-drive

[Bernie Innocenti]

Dear folks,

here's a proposal to help us move forward from the current impasse. Our
discussion seems to be based on much speculation rather than personal
experience. So, why don't interested people to take the time to download
and test the actual thing?

Hoping that a mere proof of concept wouldn't require a trademark
license, I've uploaded a dump of my USB stick here:

  http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/soas-2-blueberry-direct-2GB.img.xz

To install on any writable block media of 2GB or more, just do:

  unxz < soas-2-blueberry-direct-2GB.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdX

Voilà. Should be easier and faster than running livecd-iso-to-disk...
and it works with any half-decent OS, as long as it provides dd and xz,
of course.

The LZMA compressed image of a 2GB stick is only 416MB. I'm willing to
bet that a 4GB version would be only slightly bigger. The image was
created using the procedure I described in the post with subject "Direct
SoaS". Something equivalent could have been obtained more easily with
liveinst or the ZyX-installer.

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