On Feb 21, 2014, at 3:34 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 23:32 +0200, Elad Alfassa wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: >> >>> Trying with a new thread: One of the edits I did yesterday was to add a >>> section for 'Installation methods and media'. So far, it is empty. >>> >>> Are there any ideas for doing something other than live USB sticks >>> here ? >>> >>> -- >>> desktop mailing list >>> desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop >> >> >> >> I still think we should produce optical media (and have optical media as an >> option), if only because that's cheaper to give away in conferences :) > > In practice, a live image below 4.7GB in size (and I don't think we're > likely to exceed that) is always going to be DVD-writeable, I believe. Well sorta. It's writable, but to also be bootable it's got a lot of baggage: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11285.html Dropping ISO 9660 support in the deliverable images probably simplifies things at least somewhat. Maybe more than somewhat. If all we need is a hybrid MBR, to boot BIOS and UEFI with the same image, then it sounds to me like successful media creation becomes easier. The OS X Disk Utility probably would successfully write such an image to a USB stick. Right now it fails because it hemorrhages when trying to parse the multiple partition maps it finds in the current ISOs. Chris Murphy -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
