[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB ( boots directly from USB )

[Thomas C Gilliard]

On 11/02/2011 05:03 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Bert Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de>  wrote:
>> On 02.11.2011, at 12:38, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Bert Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de>  wrote:
>>>> On 02.11.2011, at 11:28, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Caryl Bigenho<cbigenho at hotmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 3) Can I create the persistent usb on my MacBook using the instructions I
>>>>>> found in item 4 on this page?
>>>>> You can create persistent images with overlays (you always have been
>>>>> able to).
>>>> But only under Linux, so far. The livecd-iso-to-disk tool has not been ported to OS X. The iso can be used directly on the Mac but won't have persistence.
>>> You can under windows as well.
>> Which doesn't help Mac users ;^)
> My point was that its not ONLY linux. And mac users can dual boot into
> either Window or Linux or even run one or the other as a VM and use
> USB passthrough....
>
>>>> Disk Utility on the Mac should be able to put a preconfigured image onto a USB stick. May be such an image file (created on Linux) could be made available for Caryl to download?
>>> No idea, I don't own a Mac of any description. Donations welcome.
>>
>> That might be well-spent, indeed.
>>
>> However, running the livecd-iso-to-disk tool to create an EFI disk image with persistence only requires a Linux box. Maybe this could even be part of the regular automated build process?
Note that f16 EFI Boot USB now works (with persistence since
  RC4)
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB

Tom Gilliard/satellit_

> the EFI disk image is build automatically. The addition of persistence
> requires a USB key. I presume you mean a image to dd out? If so what
> sizes do we do? How many variants? How long do we keep them and who's
> going to provide the disk space and bandwidth for hosting of them?
> This is the same discussion I have regarding the creation of images
> for the various virtualisation images. At this point in time the only
> universal standard is still ISO and it can be created from most
> platforms easily enough. I don't tend to encourage the use of dd
> simply due to the fact I've seen too many end users blow away their OS
> using it.
>
> Peter
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