Actually I remembered a conversation I had with Scott Williams who
mentioned that we might try to setup OwnCloud and run the Jam spin off of
Fedora Cloud as a proof of concept for that as well. If we get a server
working I can bring that too.

On Thu Jan 29 2015 at 11:47:10 PM Be <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been working on a Fedora Remix for something like this but
> specifically for DJing with Mixxx. I am making this with DJs and
> potential DJs in mind, who may or may not be tech savvy or know how to
> use GNU/Linux. I am keeping it under 700 MB to fit on CDs. It will be
> easy to modify the Kickstart to add whatever music packages you want to
> demonstrate for your project. A lot of the work has been writing a shell
> script to automatically partition USB drives in such a way as to be able
> to boot a live image in BIOS or EFI mode (because Macs' BIOS emulation
> mode does not have a USB driver) as well as have a normal storage
> partition that is writable from the live system, Windows, and OS X. I am
> nearly ready to publish it. I just need to read through the manual and
> check things over before I'm ready to publish it. Hopefully I can do
> that this weekend or next week.
>
> After a bunch of research, thinking, and testing, I have settled on the
> following partition scheme:
> GPT table:
> 35 MB EFI System Partition with GRUB and a grub.cfg
> 2 MB GRUB BIOS Partition
> ~700 MB live ISO image contents copied to vfat filesystem
> 100 MB ext4 unjournaled (to avoid wearing out flash drives) /home
> rest of drive vfat storage partition, mounted at /home/liveuser/music by
> a boot script
>
> Plus a hybrid MBR with the vfat storage partition first in the MBR table
> so Windows sees only that partition on drives with the removable bit set
> (this should also make it visible to CDJs, but I have not tested that).
> The hybrid MBR also has an extra GPT protective partition so OS X sees
> it as an MBR disk. Without the extra GPT protective partition, OS X will
> see it as a GPT drive. I don't know why, but it won't read any of the
> partitions when it sees it as a GPT drive. That doesn't really matter
> though for my purpose and it's probably better to hide all but the music
> partition from Windows and OS X users who would be prompted by their OS
> to format the other partitions that those OSs do not read.
>
> On 01/29/2015 04:46 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
> > On 29 January 2015 at 21:55, Brian Monroe <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> I am ParadoxGuitarist! I'm interested in going to LFNW, but I'll need to
> >> check with the wife before I can commit.
> >>
> >> I really like your idea about the USB drives, here are some challenges
> that
> >> might pop up:
> >>
> >> I haven't had a lot of luck with persistent storage option when
> creating usb
> >> drives. SoaS I've heard works well, but I'm not sure how well it works
> with
> >> Jam.
> >> I also don't know if they decide to install from that USB if their music
> >> will transfer with them.... Though, hopefully they're savvy enough to
> know
> >> how to find it on the disk and copy it over, but if not it could give
> them
> >> negative impression of Fedora or Linux.
> > I don't think it will. I've used the overlay persistent storage, that
> > has a problem that once you run out of overlay it tends to freeze (or
> > did in the past). It's possible to create the image with home on an
> > actual filesystem on the USB, can't remember if this shows up as a
> > partition or is an image file, if a partition then it would be simple
> > enough for someone to find and copy a project off the attached USB
> > after an install.
> >
> >
> >> Jack sample settings could also give a bad impression if they're not the
> >> same either when they reboot.
> > plughw could work here, but it's really the installed system setup
> > that would need to be tweaked.
> >
> >
>
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