[haiku-development] Re: Haiku R1/alpha decisions

> I think building from source is obviously not an option and I guess
> nobody really expected that. It wouldn't emobdy the goal of
> simplicity
> Haiku has at all. IMO the two ways to provide a release are clear: a
> live CD (preferrably one that can be burned without the need for two

Yes it used to work but it reported to be broken

> tracks meaning an attribute overlay for the ISO fs or maybe putting a

That should be possible, just need some code in zbeos, and an fmap
driver the way BEOS.IMG was mapped from FAT.

> BFS image inside the ISO track) and a disk image suitable for
> emulation
> and building live USB sticks. Live USB sticks do not require anything
> else than dd'ing the image directly to the USB media, and they are
> IMHO
> the easiest way of testing/installing Haiku on current hardware (that
> works today already BTW). For later releases we might want to setup a

Yes I recall trying it.

> From the software side of things, one thing of the top of my head
> would
> be BePDF. How would you otherwise read that hardware spec you wanted
> to
> write a driver for? That has actually what happened to me ;-)

Yeah and I always end up trying to find it for presentations also.

François.

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