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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > music mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
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