[ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio: We're out of space

[Len Ovens]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2022, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:

>> If it's going to only be usable on a USB stick, then let's fix how we build
>> it and avoid all the indirection that exists ONLY so that it can be used on
>> optical media.

As 32bit systems are no longer supported anyway, I am not sure there are 
any 64bit systems that can not load from a USB stick. The only reason I 
have a DVD player/writer is because I have a PCIe PATA card and the DVD is 
used for playing media just because of the pain in find blank DVD/CDs and 
formating data to put it on there in the first place is also a pain. The 
new full size case my son bought doesn't even have a cd/dvd bay.

So anyway, A bootable USB install media format limited only by the USB 
stick size makes sense to me too. The only problem I see with that (I 
really don't know if it would even be a problem) is, would current 
windows/mac based USB stick writing tools still be able to create a 
bootable USB stick? I am assuming dd would still be able to write the 
whole image to the stick. I more advanced utility could format the whole 
stick, making it persistant too, though  making it persistant after the 
fact might be a better route. (I personally have no need for this but the 
question does pop up from time to time)

Len

PS this is being written from a 32 bit machine that is no longer Ubuntu 
but mainline debian...

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Len Ovens
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