X-Original-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Delivered-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Received: from mail.alpinelinux.org (dallas-a1.alpinelinux.org [127.0.0.1]) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BBDFDCA7DC for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:49:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com (mail-pa0-f53.google.com [209.85.220.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 58CDDDC029F for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by padhk11 with SMTP id hk11so7276193pad.1 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 12:49:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=ZkBZx4punyaAs7Jpi5YYbYgf6vxoLUwPl7vBSYCN5CI=; b=dWCAW5bhMj0nQWuwFDQp+5BDQRYnQHZYSFoTedR2prDgbee20htyIntSx+JBYvv+3p tSAu7jTt1kg+v4m8lwz0qxcgPCPLCw2YtzgXlT1Y15cIsdJ6xTeWjQOkQ7S8o7nFN/Yu LdMIIpZ5sNmvqNJducP1c8CRZ5DWepTxgSTimgy/gzGcnxFOdHVPViSlTHEOJVfq3dIS QrIYxphKfb8UCNMhabm2W1c8YQpvdc0s+vvF1OaeXuZiPTDCKrMO7E2tguuPozi9MltN vhBfPyM2I/pwlzDzxvfwkQOuNW50yCZYRyZVcZ/5/TL/IubUpdRG29VQ2HQIxtjVnVKo qMxQ== X-Received: by 10.68.69.79 with SMTP id c15mr29713413pbu.90.1445197751713; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 12:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newbook ([50.0.225.136]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id pw7sm9982941pbc.4.2015.10.18.12.49.10 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 18 Oct 2015 12:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 12:49:07 -0700 From: Isaac Dunham To: Natanael Copa Cc: 7heo <7heo@mail.com>, AlpineLinux ML Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Rename proposal of alpine .ISOs Message-ID: <20151018194906.GA2728@newbook> References: <20151018202520.471ac3d7@ncopa-laptop> X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151018202520.471ac3d7@ncopa-laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 08:25:20PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote: > On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:16:56 +0200 > 7heo <7heo@mail.com> wrote: > > > I would also get rid of the iso format as the main one, as nobody > > burns installation medias anymore. It would be much better to have a > > dd'able installation image. > > The .iso format has only served as an archive format, which you can > easily boot directly in qemu. > > You can also use 7zip in windows to extract the files and run > syslinux.exe. I doubt that is ever done though. I always used to extract the ISO in 7zip, then use grub4dos to boot the files. > Maybe a dd'able isohybrid or something would work? I'd really like to see isohybrid used on ISOs, if possible; while it's not a perfect solution, it's more useful than old-fashioned ISOs. > But we will also need some storage on the bootable media in case you > want to run diskeless. for some storage on dd'able boot media from > isohybrid would require user to create a second partition for apkovl. > > If we have an dd'able boot image with vfat file system we will also > need add a second partition for apkovl as fat does not support resize. *blink* Huh? fatresize, fips...there *are* ways to split and resize FAT filesystems, and there have been for 10-20 years (FIPS was from 1995, fatresize from 2005), though the former needs to be packaged and the latter is DOS only. Don't forget that UDF is another option. Thanks, Isaac Dunham --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---