Re: [PATCH] Change the ISOs we build

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 15:08 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:02:48PM +0000, kwilliams renditionsoftware com wrote:
> > Please disregard. Clearly, I meant to send to this to an internal audience
> > rather than the mailing list.
> [...]
> > Previously we guessed that the anaconda folks hadn't done any testing with
> > usb installs using diskboot images. I guess the fact that they are
> > removing diskboot.img in Fedora 9 confirms it.
> 
> That said, I don't see any reason why the tools won't continue to generate
> images that can be used on USB drives once this development change is all
> shaken out.

The biggest reason is that it's the same bits, different format.  We're
almost better off with a tool like livecd-iso-to-disk to do the
transformation.  As it's very mechanical and just ends up being more
space.

Jeremy