> 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. That's on my list. > > > 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. We could however allow using a USB stick to store settings in a zip file when booting from the CD, and store them back on shutdown. I tried doing that for Zeta demo CDs, but due to a trick with mountvolume (which needed app_server which wasn't yet started) I couldn't use 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. As long as it's not the rectangular ones, those are said to be quite dangerous for hardware :) François.