Do we need split media CDs for F12?

Julian Sikorski belegdol at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 10:18:24 UTC 2009


Jeremy Katz pisze:
> On Saturday, June 13 2009, Jussi Lehtola said:
>> On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 11:12 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 07:04:12PM +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
>>>> Hmm, I'd want netboot.img back, since I normally use a USB stick to
>>>> start the network install (OK, there is the possibility of using
>>>> livecd-iso-to-disk, but that's a lot more hassle than downloading a
>>>> minimalistic img and running dd).
>>> We have it, it's now called netinst.iso
>> Yes but not netboot.img that could be dd'd straight away to a USB drive
>> or whatnot; the iso needs livecd-iso-to-disk which a) is extra work and
>> b) is only available on Fedora and Windows. [Also, the livecd tools need
>> an own homepage so that users of other distros can get them.]
> 
> We really need to finish the push in F12 to get liveusb-creator working
> for all cases (including command line) so that we can kick the silly
> shell script to the curb as liveusb-creator has its own homepage, etc.
> 
> Also, I want to look a bit more at isohybrid to see if we can build iso
> images that can just be dd'd, at least for the case of
> boot.iso/netinst.iso 

What's the difference between these two by the way?

> 
> Jeremy
> 
Cheers,
Julian




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