FESCo Workstation PRD follow up questions

[drago01]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 01/29/2014 08:08 AM, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 04:59 -0500, Christian Schaller wrote:
>>>>> 2) What is the actual deliverable and delivery mechanism for
>>>>> Workstation?
>>>>>
>>>>> This is asking how we intend to ship the Workstation product.
>>>>> ISO, live USB image, something else?
>>>>
>>>> There is no plan to change this from what has been the primary
>>>> delivery methods of Fedora so far. That said I think the emphasis
>>>> will need to change where a USB sticks is the primary medium and
>>>> DVDs the secondary.
>>>
>>> Two notes in this regard:
>>>
>>> 1) If we are going the USB way (which I think is the way to go as
>>> many laptops are removing CD/DVD and we also save some trees in
>>> the meantime), we should look at ways to improve the USB creation
>>> experience and documetnation wrt to the current state. I would make
>>> it a priority to focus on making it specially easy for Windows and
>>> Mac OS X users.
>>>
>>> 2) I would remove the DVD install-only option. Focusing only the
>>> installable Live media. The reason for this suggestion is that it
>>> would remove the amount of media we have to test and release and
>>> that it will reduce that confusing choice for users (if you're new
>>> it's hard to figure out which option is best or whether it matters
>>> at all).
>>>
>>
>> I'd be very wary of doing this. The big problem with the live install
>> option is that it's highly limited in the storage configurations it
>> can use. There will certainly be users out there who will want to
>> install Fedora Workstation on systems with complicated storage setups.
>> The live media probably won't work for them.
>
> How relevant to Workstation is that?

It isn't because the Live Install no longer does the "dd image to
disk" thing but just creates partitons, mounts and copies the data.
So there is no limit to storage configuration I know of.

Stephen anything specific that does not work for you using live?