[SoaS] Direct SoaS test-drive

[David Leeming]

I will certainly try that (so will the ICT folks here in Tuvalu). I will have to download the image when back in the Solomons next week as 600MB is too much for my local means here...

-----Original Message-----
From: Bernie Innocenti [mailto:bernie at codewiz.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 3:57 p.m.
To: SoaS
Cc: Peter Robinson; David Leeming; Martin Langhoff; Michael Hutak; Jim Simmons; Daniel J. Clark; Warren Togami
Subject: Direct SoaS test-drive

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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