I have been researching live distros, and it seems to be a trend that Live "CD" distros are increasingly supporting Live "USB" also. For example, DSL has a "5-way install script" that supports several boot options:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb.html
One thing I really like is that in addition to booting directly from CD or USB, you can also boot from inside another Windows or Linux environment using the Qemu emulator:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb-qemu.html
I really like Fedora, and hope the developers will officially incorporate live USB support since many users want to boot from a USB memory device. Are there any plans for this?
I suggest considering a change of the name from Fedora Live "CD" to something more general. Booting from USB, CD, Qemu, IEEE1394, and network are all possible booting options.
Thanks,
Wayne
--- Wayne Sherman wsherman@gmail.com wrote:
I have been researching live distros, and it seems to be a trend that Live "CD" distros are increasingly supporting Live "USB" also. For example, DSL has a "5-way install script" that supports several boot options:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb.html
One thing I really like is that in addition to booting directly from CD or USB, you can also boot from inside another Windows or Linux environment using the Qemu emulator:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb-qemu.html
I really like Fedora, and hope the developers will officially incorporate live USB support since many users want to boot from a USB memory device. Are there any plans for this?
I suggest considering a change of the name from Fedora Live "CD" to something more general. Booting from USB, CD, Qemu, IEEE1394, and network are all possible booting options.
I agree. Obviously livedvd's are already widespread, and liveblurays are probably already useful.
I doubt you'll get much disagreement that a feature switch on the 'livecd/system generator' tool should exist, to differentiate between 'output a liveiso', 'output a liveusb image', 'output a generic tgz'.
Likewise, I would think a good generator, even of linux livecds, would have an option to include an installation of qemu&cygwin&firefox for win32, such that the livecd could either be trivially booted natively, or trivially run under qemu under windows.
Yup, lots of work remains to be done to make the ultimate system image generator...
(I actually have low priority plans to implement the above as well, with the system image generator sufficiently portable (bash/python/qemu/X) so that it can be natively run under winblowz as well, straight from one of it's output liveisos. Bwa Ha Ha...
-dmc/jdog
Thanks,
Wayne
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