FESCo Workstation PRD follow up questions

[Christian Schaller]

Hi Luke,
Thanks for listing the issues and challenges here, but hopefully we can work with you to resolve them if we decide
we would want to offer something like it as our primary option for providing people with an install media.
I don't think it depending on PyQt4 should be an issue in itself unless these bindings use a weird license
or something like that.

Christian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Luke Macken" <lmacken at redhat.com>
To: desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:22:16 PM
Subject: Re: FESCo Workstation PRD follow up questions

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:11:08AM -0500, Christian Schaller wrote:
> Yeah, liveusb-creator is pretty nice and I agree it should probably be the default download, although I guess we
> want instructions for Windows/Mac users too. I assume there are freeware tools out there for Windows/Mac we can point
> people too?

As the author and sole developer of said tool, the thought of making it
the default download causes me a little bit of anxiety. Here are some
things to keep in mind:

 • It's almost always out of sync with the livecd-iso-to-disk script,
   which is more actively maintained.

 • It'll pull in PyQt4 & friends

 • Mac support is possible, but has yet to be implemented.
   https://github.com/lmacken/liveusb-creator/issues/6

 • It currently cannot create GPT partition tables on it's own

 • It was created as, and continues to be, a weekend side-project of
   mine and has never seen the day-to-day maintenance that a 'default' tool
   deserves.

> Also when I tried using the liveusb-creator I did discover that it fails horribly if the filesystem on 
> the USB stick is not vfat. So I will look assigning someone to work on it to somehow deal
> with that case, either through offering to replace the existing filesystem or at least failing gracefully.

It should work with both vfat and ext filesystems, so that is a bug if it did not.

luke
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