<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Bernie Innocenti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 15:31 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:<br> ><br> > liveinst is the official Fedora tool. Its part of anaconda.<br> </div>[...]<br> <div class="im">> dd or rawwrite isn't exactly what I would class as easy to use for the<br> > average user.<br> </div>[...]<br> <div class="im">> That's the advantage of liveinst. Boot the live CD/Key and it deals<br> > with all of that. As long as the key is large enough for the contents<br> > of the livecd it will then expand out the filesystem to fill the<br> > install destination as part of the procedure.<br> </div>[...]<br> <div class="im">> That's much better than reinventing the wheel.<br> ><br> </div>I agree, but there's a "bootstrap" problem: people who want to crete a<br> bootable USB image for the first time do not have access to liveinst,<br> yet.<br> <br> How should the initial SoaS image be distributed? The ISO is one<br> possibility, but it forces users to burn a CD-ROM and boot it only once<br> in order to create the USB stick. Sounds dumb.<br> <br> Moreover, CD-ROMs and seem to be fading away very quickly. My new laptop<br> doesn't have a CD burner, and I'm not planning to carry around an<br> external unit.</blockquote><div><br>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.<br> <br>Peter<br></div></div>