On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 13:17 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 17 November 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > I'm not in the position to decide about the inclusion of that into the > > Installation Guide but I believe it would be a problem due the > > translation. I think we should keep two patches in a queue to be > > commited as soon as we open svn to squeeze work.
> > Do anyone disagrees with me? > > I have a few minor, mostly practical, reservations against this. > 2) Problem with these small USB images and the way they are written is > that anything already on the USB stick gets deleted and that - given that > most USB sticks nowadays are significantly larger in size - makes most of > the stick completely unusable. Same goes for hd-media. > > If someone could come up with some solution to these problems, that would > be great. > > One alternative option for the second issue could be to instead create a > tarball with everything in it, including syslinux config and a script the > user can run manually to make the stick bootable (with appropriate > warnings if required commands, possibly checking for availability of > alternative commands, are not available). I would expect such a script to > become "smarter" with time as users provide feedback. di-netboot-assistant achieve very similar tasks for netbooting. Since the development version in git[1] allows specifying the target folder for extraction, the most "difficult" task might be to run syslinux to install the bootloader ;) Franklin [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/franklin-guest/di-netboot-assistant.git;a=summary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
