On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 17:19 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 16:26 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
These patches provide the infrastructure to support nicely booting off of a live USB stick. The pieces are to include vfat modules on the disk and to allow having the live image under a live subdirectory.
Both patches look good to me, only one nitpick: I don't like the directory name 'live', it's too generic and doesn't really make the owner of the USB stick realize what's going on. I think this may be important in settings where Fedora USB sticks are handed out on conferences; 1GB sticks are about $10 a piece these days...
Yeah, I had this thought also...
Being the pedant that I am, I also would prefer if it was capitalized. Perhaps call it LiveOS (we can't really call it Fedora) and include a README file in that sub directory that explains to the user that this USB stick is bootable including what kind of computers it can boot on. For example, the README file could mention some FAQ's about older computers that can't boot off USB. Perhaps call it README.txt to make lives easier on Windows users?
LiveOS is far better; good call. A README also sounds like a good idea. Anyone want to volunteer to write one? :-)
Jeremy