On Feb 21, 2014, at 3:34 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 23:32 +0200, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com>wrote:
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>> Trying with a new thread: One of the edits I did yesterday was to add a
>> section for 'Installation methods and media'. So far, it is empty.
>>
>> Are there any ideas for doing something other than live USB sticks
>> here ?
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> I still think we should produce optical media (and have optical media as an
> option), if only because that's cheaper to give away in conferences :)
In practice, a live image below 4.7GB in size (and I don't think we're
likely to exceed that) is always going to be DVD-writeable, I believe.
Well sorta. It's writable, but to also be bootable it's got a lot of baggage:
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11285.html
Dropping ISO 9660 support in the deliverable images probably simplifies things at least
somewhat. Maybe more than somewhat. If all we need is a hybrid MBR, to boot BIOS and UEFI
with the same image, then it sounds to me like successful media creation becomes easier.
The OS X Disk Utility probably would successfully write such an image to a USB stick.
Right now it fails because it hemorrhages when trying to parse the multiple partition maps
it finds in the current ISOs.
Chris Murphy