On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 15:31 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > > liveinst is the official Fedora tool. Its part of anaconda. > [...] > > dd or rawwrite isn't exactly what I would class as easy to use for the > > average user. > [...] > > That's the advantage of liveinst. Boot the live CD/Key and it deals > > with all of that. As long as the key is large enough for the contents > > of the livecd it will then expand out the filesystem to fill the > > install destination as part of the procedure. > [...] > > That's much better than reinventing the wheel. > > > I agree, but there's a "bootstrap" problem: people who want to crete a > bootable USB image for the first time do not have access to liveinst, > yet. > > How should the initial SoaS image be distributed? The ISO is one > possibility, but it forces users to burn a CD-ROM and boot it only once > in order to create the USB stick. Sounds dumb. > > Moreover, CD-ROMs and seem to be fading away very quickly. My new laptop > doesn't have a CD burner, and I'm not planning to carry around an > external unit. You can use livecd-iso-to-disk to put it onto a USB key so you don't need to burn a copy, and from there you can do liveinst to as many keys as you want. So you'll need a "master USB key" to create others but there is no need for a CD-ROM at all. I use this method all the time without issue. I don't own a CD/DV drive anymore, my work laptop has one which has been replaced with a battery. Peter
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