I will certainly try that (so will the ICT folks here in Tuvalu). I will have to download the image when back in the Solomons next week as 600MB is too much for my local means here...
-----Original Message----- From: Bernie Innocenti [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 3:57 p.m. To: SoaS Cc: Peter Robinson; David Leeming; Martin Langhoff; Michael Hutak; Jim Simmons; Daniel J. Clark; Warren Togami Subject: Direct SoaS test-drive Dear folks, here's a proposal to help us move forward from the current impasse. Our discussion seems to be based on much speculation rather than personal experience. So, why don't interested people to take the time to download and test the actual thing? Hoping that a mere proof of concept wouldn't require a trademark license, I've uploaded a dump of my USB stick here: http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/soas-2-blueberry-direct-2GB.img.xz To install on any writable block media of 2GB or more, just do: unxz < soas-2-blueberry-direct-2GB.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdX Voilà. Should be easier and faster than running livecd-iso-to-disk... and it works with any half-decent OS, as long as it provides dd and xz, of course. The LZMA compressed image of a 2GB stick is only 416MB. I'm willing to bet that a 4GB version would be only slightly bigger. The image was created using the procedure I described in the post with subject "Direct SoaS". Something equivalent could have been obtained more easily with liveinst or the ZyX-installer. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
