<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Downloads">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Downloads</a> ) Tom Gilliard satellit Peter Robinson wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:5256d0b1001250148u6b1c0ea0tcbe68a252f72645e@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Bernie Innocenti <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org"><bernie@codewiz.org></a>wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 15:31 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">liveinst is the official Fedora tool. Its part of anaconda. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">[...] </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">dd or rawwrite isn't exactly what I would class as easy to use for the average user. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">[...] </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">[...] </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">That's much better than reinventing the wheel. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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 </pre> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org">SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>