Fedora 7 - USB Install method - Everything ISO.

[Lamont Peterson]

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 08:36am, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 23:24 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Naoki (naoki at valuecommerce.com) said:
> > > DVDs are a pain, they are cumbersome and too small to fit a full OS
> >
> > ... then perhaps that the OS is so big is the problem. :)
> >
> > More seriously...
> >
> > > So would it not make sense to have an "everything" ISO for use on
> > > removable USB devices?
> >
> > *Shrug*. Wouldn't really make sense for it to be an ISO, from a
> > raw FS standpoint. You could have a torrent that just makes
> > a directory, even.
>
> ISOs are convenient from a distribution standpoint just to ensure that
> things were downloaded correctly[1].  I can see how spending some time
> to make the "install from a USB device" a little bit easier could
> definitely have advantages.

Agree.  But perhaps it's not an ISO, but just a "usb-disk.cpio" that's 8GB+ 
(whatever) in size.  That could be downloaded and extracted to wherever, be 
it a USB disk or a file server (NFS, etc.).

> At the same time, I don't think that the 
> areas for which DVDs are a problem will be better off with large USB
> storage devices.

Agreed.  For those environments, network installs typically make much more 
sense.  Even on my home systems, I do network installs when I can because 
it's typically faster and easier than swapping CDs or burning DVDs.

However, to set up a network installation with all available packages, I would 
probably just continue to create my own mirror of the released packages and 
of the updates repo.  But I agree that having a single file to download for 
initial setup of such file servers would be advantageous.  It could also be 
the "roll-your-own-fedora-spin-kit" with all fedora packages + the spin tools 
(to build DVD and CD ISOs).

> Jeremy
>
> [1] Also, for ensuring that people don't delete things because "I don't
> need that" then leading to install problems.  Not that such a thing ever
> happened with hd tree installs :-)

Yup.
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