Re: FOSDEM

[Bernd Zeimetz <bzed@debian.org>]

On 11/17/2010 04:06 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 15:55, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
> 
>> Instead it would be greate to create USB Sticks with Debian Installer on
>> them and sell them (below cost if enough sponsoring is found). An USB
>> Stick is more likely to boot todays systems and can be easily updated or
>> reused for other things when the installer becomes too old. CD/DVDs you
>> just have to throw away.
> 
> I don't think there is much incentive to buy yet another USB thumb
> drive. What about a pre-loading station where people can choose what
> install media they want and then have them copied to their drives
> automagically? I don't if Debian has something similar to grml's
> grml2usb with support for parallel images or this could be adapted for
> debian's needs, though.

The new mini.iso installer comes with that nice feature.


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