On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 14:35 +0100, Martin Bříza wrote: > > 1) Is not really a reason for non-destructive image writing - I'd say > there's a third reason - it's hard to revert the iso partition scheme, as > I mentioned in an other mail to Christian in this thread. That's a reasonable point indeed, but I like your proposed solution: simply have a 'restore this to being a regular data stick' button in the luc interface. Seems like the best approach to me. > 2) Yeah, adding another patition could be done quite easily I think, at > least in Linux and on Mac. Probably more reliably too. Not sure how to > solve this from inside the live image though. I'm afraid I don't know either, all the overlay stuff is ancient black magic I've never dug into :( > Ad. modularity: It's pretty generic in my opinion - there is an occasional > Fedora string here and there but overall these would be easy to remove. If > you'd want to add your own distro/product/whatever, you'd just have to > write your own provider of links to images, along with their descriptions > and optionally some additional data like release date, version or links to > screenshots. > For Fedora, this is done by a PyQuery parser of the getfedora.org > websites, that harvests all text that's stored there to present it in LUC > too. > You could possibly do that for other distros too if you'd want. Depends if > folks from the other distros notice this and decide it's useful to them. I > guess we could cooperate but until then, Fedora only. All distros which ship hybridized ISOs really *need* a tool like this; I've actually poked through the docs for most distros and they all have some kind of instructions for doing a dd-style write on Windows and OS X, and they all kinda suck just like ours. So I think a shared tool with good cross-OS support would be a huge win for all of us. I included links to the support pages for the major distros here: https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/02/04/more-on-booting-a-practical-fedora-uefi-guide-and-dont-use-universal-usb-stick-writers/ you can see from that that we're all promoting a kind of mish-mash of non-purpose-built tools which don't really give a great user experience overall. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
