On Friday, 19 January 2018 19:33:28 UTC, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi all, > > I'm building what hopefully will be R4.0-rc4 and I have two > reflections: > > 1. After upgrading templates to fedora-26 and debian-9, there is no way > the installation image will fit on DVD. Right now it takes 4908384256 > bytes. We probably could try to cut it down by eliminating even more > packages from templates, but I think there is no much non-essential > packages left there. For example we no longer ship vim in debian-9. > Right now I see two options: > - abandon the goal of fitting the image on DVD (I'd go for this) > - exclude some template from default installation... > > 2. grub suck at booting xen.efi (or rather: xen.efi is rather picky > about its environment). On many systems, booting xen.efi without grub > (using rEFInd, EFI shell, or simply by renaming it over BOOTX64.efi) > helps with boot problems. An idea: do not use grub on UEFI installation. > Downside: you loose boot menu - no way to choose or not media > verification, or rescue mode. And no way to adjust boot arguments, > needed on some platforms to workaround UEFI bugs... To do that, you'd > need to edit EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg using some other means. > Alternative: keep grub there, but provide an instruction how to boot > xen.efi directly, in short: > > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt # assuming /dev/sdb1 is installation USB > mv /mnt/EFI/BOOT/xen.efi /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi > mv /mnt/EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.cfg > umount /mnt > > After such operation, media verification would fail, obviously. > > Any input on the above? > > - -- > Best Regards, > Marek Marczykowski-Górecki > Invisible Things Lab > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEhrpukzGPukRmQqkK24/THMrX1ywFAlpiR+IACgkQ24/THMrX > 1yyriwf+Mk7wGfrnOBOf0gjOv61zTUbo6Iq6sPx4Xt4jK7+PFElLTCr1GVI+xoEc > uBePakd0mh1fH6FiNe8KjJxo5txWjS6D1326b9YfQXDvVoyOC3P9vZ9QHXcCoI0o > LSjT1z23T4OKELQeeySwA4FyCw6IblumcFhigvWF2GiEelWQJoMfk2ncmCumC+pE > x9SJnrolTWon208z9KokpufhGG8Gap4SJIiUjmmFCHce0GfYsCE5lYnDS1I7DPyX > +7kvmtJJakIolZkdDGVvKVVFx5c2Rg8EJOoxzp5euPiOH2xgsOLueQHmy7e5TrqL > KvTPjE53WmpzDq/Xh6SV9dhXTRjI+g== > =DsvK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
I think fit in single layer DVD is important. I suspect some of the users do not have access to hardware that easily (i.e. dual layer DVD burner). I second the fact that you have to be able to use a ReadOnly media, verify the hash/key on few different machine before installing. I would provide default template that you support (fedora still?). It is not too hard to get another template and re-create sys-net and sys-firewall if you want another distro for these... (disposable + minimal for these would be better). Window manager: it might be more important to keep all the one you support. I hope XFCE is still the default. I can't comment on the boot side, out of my comfort zone... maybe you could have 2 downloads... people use the basic one and only download the other one if the have problems or if they want to multiboot... but it's more work for you... Great work Marek and the team. as always. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/0969ce81-ac0f-49c2-980f-fad3c93dc1ab%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
