Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. schreef:
> 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...

That is what i like most also, if-up and repos in it.

> > + 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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