Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Tuesday 2008-04-01 at 14:04 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:

> [disclaimer: this status report does not contain any April Fool's joke]
>
> - openSUSE 11.0 nears beta freeze
> - many features are taking care of right now, bugfixes are often
>  delayed
> - factory is in pretty good shape, bootloader saw a fix :)
> - installation is actively been worked on, automatic configuration
>  in second stage and image base installation should work now.
> - we switched to lzma payload for rpm last week
> - we seriously think about dropping the one CD solutions and
>  concentrate on the installable live CDs

Provided there is still a small iso for network install...

> + providing a live USB
>  stick

 +1

and the user can add things to it later.

Question: if an USB stick doesn't boot (no bios support for usb boot), 
would it be possible to boot it from a CD boot only image?


> This would have some implications I would love to have feedback on:
> live cds would be i386 and x86_64, the USB stick would be a smaller
> system to download as compressed i386 disk image. So I would not put
> office and games on it, but rather some rescue tools and e.g.
> wireshark.

Both flavors would be nice. One for rescues, another for demos. Both kind 
of uses will have followers, I think. In any case, we can add things to 
it.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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