[ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio: We're out of space
Len Ovens
len at ovenwerks.net
Thu Mar 24 20:18:27 UTC 2022
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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