[Live-demo] Re: Booting from OSGEOLive USB flash drive

[Hamish]

activityworkshop wrote:
> So here's what I found:
> - I recommend you put some note in the wiki page about
> requiring an Ubuntu startup disk creator > 11.04 or
> whatever the minimum is.

sounds good.
+ copy the iso to a hard drive, even if you booted from a dvd.

> - Sun java is properly installed (I was expecting to have to
> test openjdk)

for now, you get both. please manually sudo swap over to openjdk
over the next months and make sure all is ok. the next release
will only ship openjdk-7.


> - I had a funny keyboard issue, where it seemed to think
> that my "Fn" key was pressed down.

weird; no idea

> - If you're stuck for space, have you thought about removing
> the "Games" directory?  Maybe a controversial
> suggestion but maybe it would save a few vital MB...

actually combined(!) all those games take less than 2.5mb or so;
not everything is bloatware. I figure some conference goer who
is stuck in an airport or a boring session would be very grateful
to find them there. :-)  random trivia: that puzzle collection
was written by the same author as the PuTTY ssh terminal.


Hamish