On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 00:04 +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > > On Saturday 14 October 2006 23:33, Roy Bamford wrote: > > > Evaluate the operating media. Should it be a CD, DVD, or USB > > > A DVD+/-RW or USB would provide space for recovered data, if required. > > > > Currently the project is in the same state as it was months ago: an > > ISO-Image > > with a maximum capacity of 650 Megabytes (cheap with a fair ammount of > > space). Since it's loop-compressed via squashfs, the nominal size should be > > around 850 - 900MB (minus non-compressed contents). > > As some modern server machines doesn't ship with a cd/dvd-rom drive per > default also providing an usb-stick image (fitting on 128MB sticks?) > makes sense and would help a lot :)
Well, any CD image built with genkernel 3.4.2 or better will work on a USB stick (there was a bug in 3.4.1/2006.1 that caused them not to work) with minimal fuss (syslinux over isolinux). -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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