Thomas Gilliard wrote:
> This sounds like a use for https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/MultiWriter
> let the people bring their own USB keys
I already mentioned this sort of tool ("USB burning stations" – most of them
were actually notebooks running software like this). It doesn't solve the
problem
Chris Murphy wrote:
> So if the context is 2Mbps or less, I'd think people would get
> frustrated fairly quickly with the ~ 1GiB+ downloads Gnome Software
> does in the background on first boot, with no UI for disabling it.
That is just unacceptable behavior from GNOME Software and ought to be
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:41 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>> U.S. rural areas? :-D
>
> I'm pretty rural, and even I have good internet. Maybe we need to
> redefine "rural" to be independent of physicality :-)
Yes it was sort of a ding on the state of affairs in the U.S. rather
than
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Richard Ryniker wrote:
>>an optical specific Live Workstation spin
>
> Sounds like the proper category: will not block a regular Fedora release,
> will not consume test resources for primary Fedora deliverables, and will
> provide a focus for
> U.S. rural areas? :-D
I'm pretty rural, and even I have good internet. Maybe we need to
redefine "rural" to be independent of physicality :-)
> Based on feedback from Ambassadors, DVD images may still be useful
> giveaways in regions with less access to bandwidth. I'm not sure what
> to do
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:00:05PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > Based on feedback from Ambassadors, DVD images may still be useful
> > giveaways in regions with less access to bandwidth. I'm not sure what
> > to do about that.
> U.S. rural areas? :-D
Possibly, although I think most people would
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Matthew Miller
wrote:
> Based on feedback from Ambassadors, DVD images may still be useful
> giveaways in regions with less access to bandwidth. I'm not sure what
> to do about that.
U.S. rural areas? :-D
Are we talking about the DVDs
On 10/10/2016 03:48 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:
This is already a problem. We're giving away DVDs because it's
something to give away, not because it's what people really still want.
We need to find out some other take-homes that people find
useful and desirable *anyway*.
Matthew Miller wrote:
> This is already a problem. We're giving away DVDs because it's
> something to give away, not because it's what people really still want.
> We need to find out some other take-homes that people find
> useful and desirable *anyway*.
>
> Based on feedback from Ambassadors,
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Adam Williamson
wrote:
> 1) Are there still cases where an admin would want to use optical media
> on a machine that *could* boot via USB, for legitimate reasons? (I
> genuinely don't know the answer to this).
So far I've had to deal
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 09:03:44PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > 1) Are there still cases where an admin would want to use optical media
> > on a machine that *could* boot via USB, for legitimate reasons? (I
> > genuinely don't know the answer to this).
> Is "I have a spare DVD±R around, but no
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 08:58:43AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Well, that's not the only consideration though. There's two other
> factors I can think of:
> 1) Are there still cases where an admin would want to use optical media
> on a machine that *could* boot via USB, for legitimate reasons?
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:57:30PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Maybe it's practical to only support optical boot on either Lives or
> netinstalls (and by extension server DVD). I'd say block on
> netinstalls, just becase those can fit on either a DVD or CD, and
> desktops and servers are more
Adam Williamson wrote:
> 1) Are there still cases where an admin would want to use optical media
> on a machine that *could* boot via USB, for legitimate reasons? (I
> genuinely don't know the answer to this).
Is "I have a spare DVD±R around, but no spare USB key" enough of a reason?
(That was
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Matthew Miller
wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 01:08:13PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> explicit instructions for all three media types we care about (virtual
>> disc attached to a VM, real optical disc in a real machine, real USB
>>
On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 11:42 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
I think the hardware on which Fedora will run well which cannot boot from USB
media is
vanishingly small.
Like the piece of crap Samsung notebook I bought new in 2012. [:-/]
Using optical media feels so dirty, though I guess it does
On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 11:42 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 01:08:13PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > explicit instructions for all three media types we care about (virtual
> > disc attached to a VM, real optical disc in a real machine, real USB
> > stick in a real
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 01:08:13PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> explicit instructions for all three media types we care about (virtual
> disc attached to a VM, real optical disc in a real machine, real USB
> stick in a real machine), we ditch the USB test matrices entirely, and
I think we
> Hi folks! Sending this to devel@ as well as test@ as there's been some
> relevant discussion there recently. We've been kicking around a couple
> of issues lately:
>
> 1. Exactly what do we need to test and block on, in terms of writing
> images to USB sticks?
>
> 2. 'Default boot and install'
On Sat, 2016-10-08 at 14:50 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > to summarize the changes - we improve the test case's wording to give
> > explicit instructions for all three media types we care about (virtual
> > disc attached to a VM, real optical disc in a real machine, real
Adam Williamson wrote:
> to summarize the changes - we improve the test case's wording to give
> explicit instructions for all three media types we care about (virtual
> disc attached to a VM, real optical disc in a real machine, real USB
> stick in a real machine), we ditch the USB test matrices
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Adam Williamson
wrote:
> Hi folks! Sending this to devel@ as well as test@ as there's been some
> relevant discussion there recently. We've been kicking around a couple
> of issues lately:
>
> 1. Exactly what do we need to test and block
Hi folks! Sending this to devel@ as well as test@ as there's been some
relevant discussion there recently. We've been kicking around a couple
of issues lately:
1. Exactly what do we need to test and block on, in terms of writing
images to USB sticks?
2. 'Default boot and install' table was
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