[haiku-development] Re: Demo CD
- From: "Ryan Leavengood" <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:23:39 -0500
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Jonas Sundström <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If the image and an installer could be bundled up as
> executables for Windows, Linux and MacOS X, that
> would be a simple way to install and a nice first boot
> without bad CD seek latencies. Just download the
> Windows executable, plug in a USB stick, run the installer
> (which copies the image over and adds a bootsector)
> and then reboot into Haiku. (BIOS options have to be set
> properly, but that is not any different from booting off CDs.)
That is an interesting idea. For what it is worth I have experience
with the NullSoft Installer system for Windows. Though it might be
"fun" to use the assembler-like language of the installer to create
something complex like this. I guess in the worse case the installer
could just delegate to a Win32 program.
There is also the old BeOS PE technique of an image on disk which can
be booted from, which I think Ubuntu has also experimented with. I
would think Windows would be the primary system to deploy something
like that on first.
> We could preinstall on cheap USB sticks and pass
> them out, sort of like what Ubuntu does with CDs.
That is an interesting idea as well, but could get expensive. Mass
produced CDs are a lot cheaper than even the cheapest USB sticks.
People might take the USB sticks just to have them and get rid of the
Haiku image on it.
I also think it might be interesting to use Mini CDs for demos, if
only to demonstrate how small Haiku is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_CD
They are 155 MB up to 210 MB, depending on density. That would be
enough for a Haiku image with installer, a WebKit browser, and some
other demos.
Ryan
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