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antheas
Dunno how good of an idea is testing through a USB stick
Dunno how good of an idea is testing through a USB stick
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A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:22 AM
Might give a bad impression
A
antheas
Dunno how good of an idea is testing through a USB stick
N
Noel
•
8/6/24, 11:26 AM
Expectations have always been a live USB stuck is not the same as an actual install
.
N
Noel
•
8/6/24, 11:26 AM
Gives someone an opportunity to look at Bazzite though before they install
.
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:27 AM
I don
't think a lot of our users will have those preconceptions
A
antheas
I don't think a lot of our users will have those preconceptions
N
Noel
•
8/6/24, 11:28 AM
That
's true
. There certainly hasn
't been a demand for one
. Only smaller ISOs which a net install would help solve
.
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:29 AM
my preference would be net install too
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:29 AM
also not needing a usb stick
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:30 AM
but for that
, iso size needs to drop to less than 200mb
N
Noel
•
8/6/24, 11:32 AM
There is an option to do net installs
, but anaconda does not have retries built in when using that method
.
N
Noel
•
8/6/24, 11:33 AM
We are already using a patched anaconda
, might be trivial to implement that
? Not really sure on the details of it
.
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:33 AM
200mb is the tougher one
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:33 AM
would be nice to shove the ISO in the windows efi partition
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:33 AM
then no usb
, just launch
.exe and reboot
A
antheas
200mb is the tougher one
N
Noel
•
8/6/24, 11:34 AM
I don
't remember the size of the net installer for normal Fedora
, but I thought it was less than 1GB
.
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:35 AM
yeah but less than 1gb is not 100mb
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:35 AM
windows efi is like 300mb
?
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:35 AM
260mb
N
Noel
I don't remember the size of the net installer for normal Fedora, but I thought ...
H
HikariKnight
•
8/6/24, 11:36 AM
i have the old net installer we used and im at work let me go check
H
HikariKnight
•
8/6/24, 11:36 AM
about 686mb
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:37 AM
would have to be curses for sure
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:37 AM
and custom
H
HikariKnight
•
8/6/24, 11:37 AM
hhd cursed edition when
?
:clueless
:
M
M2
•
8/6/24, 11:37 AM
We were using grub to select image
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:38 AM
i was thinking of the name trojan
N
Noel
•
8/6/24, 11:38 AM
Yeah
, the old ISO was a custom built thing
.
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:38 AM
until i get sued by the condom company
M
M2
We were using grub to select image
H
HikariKnight
•
8/6/24, 11:38 AM
yeah we use the net installer at work
, its handy and we dont have network issues there
.
M
M2
•
8/6/24, 11:39 AM
I always had to unload tpm from grub
H
HikariKnight
•
8/6/24, 11:39 AM
having F39 install F40 is funny
:clueless
:
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:39 AM
in this case
, i think the installer would create a btrfs partition and download the image at a snapshot there
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:39 AM
with retries
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:39 AM
then apply it and remove the subvolume thing
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:40 AM
or be able to select it from a usb drive
H
HikariKnight
•
8/6/24, 11:41 AM
if we make a tui installer we would have to have controller support for it
, meaning we need lizardmode for all the handhelds
:clueless
:
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 11:42 AM
https://github.com/hhd-dev/jkbd/tree/master
GitHub
GitHub - hhd-dev/jkbd: JKBD: Joystick to Keyboard service. Converts...
JKBD
: Joystick to Keyboard service
. Converts joysticks into a keyboard device
.
- hhd
-dev
/jkbd
H
HikariKnight
•
8/6/24, 11:42 AM
why am i not surprised
R
RealDishwash
•
8/6/24, 11:50 AM
Does cosmic have fractional scaling
?
M
M2
•
8/6/24, 11:51 AM
Not for XWayland yet
M
M2
•
8/6/24, 11:53 AM
Basically think gnome
. Fractional scaling is good for Wayland
.
R
RealDishwash
•
8/6/24, 11:54 AM
Fair
R
RealDishwash
•
8/6/24, 11:54 AM
Ever since plasma 6
, fractional scaling on KDE has been great
R
RealDishwash
•
8/6/24, 11:55 AM
Looking forward to plasma 6
.2 and a cosmic beta
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 12:12 PM
https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/grub/+git/ubuntu/tree/debian/build-efi-images?h=debian/2.06-2ubuntu12
seems like
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 12:12 PM
ubuntu
's signed grub could be used as a bootstrap
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 12:13 PM
the one for the installer that is
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 12:13 PM
uses an embedded
.fat grub
.cfg to sniff out another grub
.cfg placed in the same partition
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 12:13 PM
fedora one should be possible too
, but I cant find the sauce
A
antheas
OP
•
8/6/24, 12:14 PM
anyone wanna help
?
J
j0rge
•
8/6/24, 1:25 PM
@Noel one more day until your talk
?
J
j0rge
@Noel one more day until your talk?
N
Noel
•
8/6/24, 1:25 PM
yup
! it
’s tomorrow
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