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Re: Keeper of the iso's

Sorry, I have no desire to cart around a bunch of CD or DVD installers.  Or even a bunch of thumbdrives (I've tried the thumbdrives and it is just too complicated to keep track)  

Anyways the idea came to me from a discussion on SF-lug.  Person there wanted to pass the mantle.  And I asked how they did the new iso's 

(I ended up replying in a private message instead of the group.  Which is how the topic about reply to behavior of mailing lists came up with Rick.  Now I see this google-group has been 
changed to follow the normal mailing list method.)  

It reminded me of some SciFi fantasy thing like Bilbo or Frodo holding the Ring.  So "Keeper of the iso's"  

My idea here is to just carry a portable ssd.  Install a multi-boot loader that can boot iso's.  Then if someone comes to a meeting and needs install media they can either boot 
directly from the portable ssd or burn (or flash) the iso to their disk.  
I could carry one CD with like supergrub for those people with machines that can't boot USB directly.  

I don't distro-hop at all so I don't know what to include.  Knoppix is a good suggestion, Aaron.  But I was expecting you to mention some of the distros you use.  I think you have 
mentioned Antix and Duvean.  Do you think I should include those?  

Thomas

On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 6:36 PM ace36 <acohen36@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 8:58 AM, I <acohen36@gmail.com> previously wrote:
As far as creating single-ISO bootable media for the Linux installers, I myself tend to notice that there are three major types:
1. USB thumbdrives in storage capacities ranging from 1 GB (for bootable CD-size, netinstall-type ISO's) all the way up to 8 GB (for the vast majority of bootable DVD-size, complete install ISO's.)

2. DVDs.
Note that as of this writing, Michael P still has two DVD-burning SATA drives available as per his BALUG Wiki's Offered/Wanted: Hardware, etc. at  https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_etc

So what distros should I download?  

Was mentioning this briefly at today's meetup earlier, but there's an excellent and personally-recommended distro that starts out as as a DVD-bootable liveDVD and then puts USB drives in the popular 16 GB and 32 GB capacities to very good use .
That distro is Knoppix; description at https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=knoppix
From the various International download mirrors at https://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html , it seems that one of the latest easily-available English versions of Knoppix is v9.1, a.k.a., KNOPPIX_V9.1DVD-2021-01-25-EN.iso

After downloading, signature-verifying, and burning the 4.4GB Knoppix DVD, one boots that liveDVD and can then format a 16GB or 32GB USB thumbdrive as 1) a system-bootable Knoppix liveUSB partition and 2) a 10GB+ or 26GB+ FAT32 persistent storage partition for portably-available files (can even store the original 4.4GB downloaded ISO in this latter storage partition for future DVD-image creation :-) )

On DVD-burning SATA drives such as those Michael is donating for those who need, their usual uses AFAICT are as internal optical drives in PCs or as external optical drives placed within sufficiently large SATA-drive enclosures for portable use (connected via USB to laptop or desktop machines.) 
BTW as an aside , when I first visited SF Noisebridge's 2169 Mission hackerspace less than 10yrs ago, ISTR someone setting up a mini-tower PC running a *buntu having four SATA hard drives taking up all the internal drive mounts and 2 x 5.25" optical bays space, together with a SATA DVD drive extended way out of the mini-tower case for presumably burning and playing DVDs. I'd guess that one of the SATA data cables for one of the four SATA hard drives was disconnected and then reconnected using a much longer cable (or extra long-extension cable) to the external DVD drive, and probably similar for the SATA power cable extended from the machine's internal power supply.  Sure, either or both of that mini-tower PC's cable extensions going to the DVD drive couldv'e rather been cut-and-splice hacked for all I know and remember :-\

-Aaron

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