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On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 00:04 +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: |
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> > On Saturday 14 October 2006 23:33, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> > > Evaluate the operating media. Should it be a CD, DVD, or USB |
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> > > A DVD+/-RW or USB would provide space for recovered data, if required. |
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> > Currently the project is in the same state as it was months ago: an ISO-Image |
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> > with a maximum capacity of 650 Megabytes (cheap with a fair ammount of |
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> > space). Since it's loop-compressed via squashfs, the nominal size should be |
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> > around 850 - 900MB (minus non-compressed contents). |
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> As some modern server machines doesn't ship with a cd/dvd-rom drive per |
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> default also providing an usb-stick image (fitting on 128MB sticks?) |
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> makes sense and would help a lot :) |
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Well, any CD image built with genkernel 3.4.2 or better will work on a |
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USB stick (there was a bug in 3.4.1/2006.1 that caused them not to work) |
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with minimal fuss (syslinux over isolinux). |
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