Hi all
See the mail below; I'll forward any comments on.
Personally I think the best solution would be able to have ROS identify drives connected via USB and install directly onto such drives.
Cheers Jason
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Konrad Strachan treeonthemountainside@gawab.com Date: Jun 4, 2005 2:28 PM Subject: 'Portable ROS' To: jason.filby@gmail.com
Dear Jason Filby,
I have been experimenting for a while with putting whole operating systems of removable drives for the purpose of booting a portable OS and interface anywhere. I have been able to do this with ReactOS, but it is much harder. The reason is the manner in which ROS distributions are released. Unless 0.3.0 differs from the last few releases, all that will be released is a CD iso image to install onto a hard drive and Qemu emulation image. Whilst these would suit most of the people who are interested in playing with ROS, it makes it very difficult to make a portable version. I initially experimented with taking the boot loader from the install CD and using the emulation image (and various other permutations..) , but I have not been able to make it work. The only way I have been able to make a working portable image is through actually burning the iso image and installing ROS onto an old hard drive, taking that image including the boot sector, and writing it to a USB drive. This worked but it was a very roundabout way of doing it. Furthermore, it is not a case of grafting the new distribution onto the boot loader I have already taken from the previous installation due to various changed in the boot loading code with the release of 0.2.6. What I am asking, is that you make available the boot loader from the installed version of the software with each release in an image file. I think a lot more people would be drawn to ROS if it could be used in this manner. Please let me know what you think and keep up the excellent work :p
Warm Regards
Konrad Strachan.
What you need are Motherboards capable of booting from USB. Most early Motherboards w/ USB didn't have the ability to boot from it.
Also, there might be a workaround for getting ROS to boot from USB. In particular, on my Asus A8V (Before it blew), you had the option of emulating a USB Stick as either a Floppy Disk, or a Hard Disk. IIRC, emulated as a Floppy, you could get Freeldr off of it using AutoExec, which would boot ROS Directly fro the USB Stick.
That's if it'll, just my 2c.
On 6/4/05, Jason Filby jason.filby@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all
See the mail below; I'll forward any comments on.
Personally I think the best solution would be able to have ROS identify drives connected via USB and install directly onto such drives.
Cheers Jason
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Konrad Strachan treeonthemountainside@gawab.com Date: Jun 4, 2005 2:28 PM Subject: 'Portable ROS' To: jason.filby@gmail.com
Dear Jason Filby,
I have been experimenting for a while with putting whole operating systems of removable drives for the purpose of booting a portable OS and interface anywhere. I have been able to do this with ReactOS, but it is much harder. The reason is the manner in which ROS distributions are released. Unless 0.3.0 differs from the last few releases, all that will be released is a CD iso image to install onto a hard drive and Qemu emulation image. Whilst these would suit most of the people who are interested in playing with ROS, it makes it very difficult to make a portable version. I initially experimented with taking the boot loader from the install CD and using the emulation image (and various other permutations..) , but I have not been able to make it work. The only way I have been able to make a working portable image is through actually burning the iso image and installing ROS onto an old hard drive, taking that image including the boot sector, and writing it to a USB drive. This worked but it was a very roundabout way of doing it. Furthermore, it is not a case of grafting the new distribution onto the boot loader I have already taken from the previous installation due to various changed in the boot loading code with the release of 0.2.6. What I am asking, is that you make available the boot loader from the installed version of the software with each release in an image file. I think a lot more people would be drawn to ROS if it could be used in this manner. Please let me know what you think and keep up the excellent work :p
Warm Regards
Konrad Strachan.
http://treeonthemountainside.cjb.net
http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~konr/bootlinux.html
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