On 02.11.2011, at 13:03, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Bert Freudenberg <b...@freudenbergs.de> > wrote: >> >> On 02.11.2011, at 12:38, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Bert Freudenberg <b...@freudenbergs.de> >>> wrote: >>>> On 02.11.2011, at 11:28, Peter Robinson wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> 3) Can I create the persistent usb on my MacBook using the instructions I >>>>>> found in item 4 on this page? >>>>> >>>>> You can create persistent images with overlays (you always have been >>>>> able to). >>>> >>>> But only under Linux, so far. The livecd-iso-to-disk tool has not been >>>> ported to OS X. The iso can be used directly on the Mac but won't have >>>> persistence. >>> >>> You can under windows as well. >> >> Which doesn't help Mac users ;^) > > My point was that its not ONLY linux. And mac users can dual boot into > either Window or Linux or even run one or the other as a VM and use > USB passthrough....
Mac geeks can do that. Mac user don't. >>>> Disk Utility on the Mac should be able to put a preconfigured image onto a >>>> USB stick. May be such an image file (created on Linux) could be made >>>> available for Caryl to download? >>> >>> No idea, I don't own a Mac of any description. Donations welcome. >> >> >> That might be well-spent, indeed. >> >> However, running the livecd-iso-to-disk tool to create an EFI disk image >> with persistence only requires a Linux box. Maybe this could even be part of >> the regular automated build process? > > the EFI disk image is build automatically. The addition of persistence > requires a USB key. I presume you mean a image to dd out? Yes. > If so what sizes do we do? How many variants? The smallest reasonable size. SoaS is .4 GB, add .5 GB user space, makes a .9 GB image. That should fit on any 1 GB or larger stick. No variants. > How long do we keep them If space is really a concern, it could just be a stable image for using and a bleeding-edge one for testing. So two images, that's 1 GB compressed disk space needed. > and who's going to provide the disk space and bandwidth for hosting of them? Sugarlabs maybe? > This is the same discussion I have regarding the creation of images > for the various virtualisation images. Indeed. Having one VirtualBox image (or two, for bleeding edge testing) would be very helpful for non-geek Sugar users with Macs. > At this point in time the only > universal standard is still ISO and it can be created from most > platforms easily enough. I don't tend to encourage the use of dd > simply due to the fact I've seen too many end users blow away their OS > using it. That's why I mentioned Disk Utility (Apple's graphical shell for disks/images/cds/backups etc). Hopefully that could be used instead of dd or the image-write-mac shell script. - Bert - _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas