On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgallagh@redhat.com wrote:
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On 01/29/2014 08:31 AM, drago01 wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Josh Boyer jwboyer@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgallagh@redhat.com wrote:
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On 01/29/2014 08:08 AM, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 04:59 -0500, Christian Schaller wrote:
> 2) What is the actual deliverable and delivery mechanism > for Workstation? > > This is asking how we intend to ship the Workstation > product. ISO, live USB image, something else?
There is no plan to change this from what has been the primary delivery methods of Fedora so far. That said I think the emphasis will need to change where a USB sticks is the primary medium and DVDs the secondary.
Two notes in this regard:
- If we are going the USB way (which I think is the way to
go as many laptops are removing CD/DVD and we also save some trees in the meantime), we should look at ways to improve the USB creation experience and documetnation wrt to the current state. I would make it a priority to focus on making it specially easy for Windows and Mac OS X users.
- I would remove the DVD install-only option. Focusing only
the installable Live media. The reason for this suggestion is that it would remove the amount of media we have to test and release and that it will reduce that confusing choice for users (if you're new it's hard to figure out which option is best or whether it matters at all).
I'd be very wary of doing this. The big problem with the live install option is that it's highly limited in the storage configurations it can use. There will certainly be users out there who will want to install Fedora Workstation on systems with complicated storage setups. The live media probably won't work for them.
How relevant to Workstation is that?
It isn't because the Live Install no longer does the "dd image to disk" thing but just creates partitons, mounts and copies the data. So there is no limit to storage configuration I know of.
Hmm, I must have missed that we're no longer doing that. So the "install from live image" now has full access to the anaconda storage manager? If that's the case, I withdraw my concerns.
Yes I don't know of anything that's missing but I have not compared both and checked every single option.
Stephen anything specific that does not work for you using live?
Truthfully, I haven't installed from live media since around F16. I always install with the net iso.
OK.