From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: ISO-9660 image working and ready Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:20:26 +0200 Message-ID: <87fue1bbdx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d195etic.fsf@gnu.org> <20170712134405.25274-1-dannym@scratchpost.org> <87inixd9z1.fsf@gnu.org> <20170712192827.22b7c740@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53325) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVP3h-0007sd-9K for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:20:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVP3d-0002Rr-Uj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:20:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170712192827.22b7c740@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:28:27 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hey hey! (This is a followup to .) Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > If we want we can (in the future) provide only the iso9660 image on the h= omepage (for x86_64). > > It will work from CD and USB flash drive - that should cover all the opti= ons. Are you saying that the same image could be either dd=E2=80=99d to a USB ke= y or burnt on an actual CD? Are there any downsides to using ISO9660 as the file system for the media, like limitations on file names or file name lengths, restrictions on the type of files, etc.? (That doesn=E2=80=99t seem to be the case, but= I vaguely remember ISO9660 as having annoying limitations.) > (Usually, ARM systems have a more involved boot process and will not work= , neither from SD card nor from CD-ROM - and booting from USB flash drive i= s out of the question). > > Of course it would be nice if people could test the iso9660 image a bit (= especially on UEFI systems of which I have none). > > To generate one, for example do this: > > guix system disk-image -t iso9660 foo.scm # will print the name of the di= rectory that contains "guixsd.iso" in the end. I=E2=80=99ve just built: ./pre-inst-env guix system disk-image -t iso9660 gnu/system/install.scm on v0.13.0-1321-gc96ed0091 (current master), booted it with QEMU, worked fine with =E2=80=98lsblk=E2=80=99 showing only /dev/{fd0,sr0}. Woo= hoo! \o/ The image has this 2KiB /boot.catalog file; is that expected? Otherwise the file names look alright as if Joliet extensions were used, but maybe they are? =E2=80=9Cguix gc --verify=3Dcontents=E2=80=9D in the i= mage is happy (and surprisingly fast). Anyway awesome work, and a great milestone. Many users who had been complaining about the lack of ISOs will thank you! :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.