Filling the gaps in the spec: media

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Sat Feb 22 03:15:28 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 20:06 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2014, at 3:34 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> 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 at redhat.com>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 ?
> >>> 
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> >> 
> >> 
> >> 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

True, I was assuming 'built using our current tools'.
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