[Voyage-linux] CD iso install or CF image?

[Punky Tse]

Steve W wrote:

Thanks Steve.  My suggestion to having a installer CD is because the 
user may only have windows PC, and they may not have extra machine for 
install Linux, the bootable CD will just fit for need.

> Instead of doing a CD install, why not just do an image file with dd 
> and have that available for download.
>
> Assuming /dev/sda is your CF.
>
> To create the image you do:
> dd if=/dev/sda of=voyage-x-x.img bs=512k
>
> To put the image file onto a new CF just do:
> dd of=/dev/sda if=voyage-x-x.img bs=512k
>
> No need to format it first or any of that stuff.
>
> If you want to revise what is on the CF you can do so later by just 
> mounting /dev/sda1 and so on.
>
> If you do this though I would leave both the regular install and the 
> image file as options instead of dropping the regular install.
>
> You can zip the image files to make them less of a disk space hog. I 
> found zip worked better for me than tar.gz for an image file. Maybe 
> its just me :)
>
> Steve...
>
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