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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">All,</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Just a note here about my experience with USB building.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">First I'm a complete newbie to this stuff.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I managed to build a USB bootable device. The main reason I was interested in a USB was the devices I was using them on were netbooks without DVD players. My development machine wasn't the newest hardware though, so getting the USB to boot was a little tricky. Newer desktop hardware seems to boot from the USB a little easier.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I'm personally 50/50 on which to distribute them on. You might just think about doing half of each, and let the participants choose.</font> </p>
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>>> Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </p>
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OSGeo-Live will be handed out to all delegates at FOSS4G 2011 in Denver,<br>and what I'd like to know is whether we should distribute on a DVD or USB.<br><br>In Barcelona, we were unsure whether the USB version would work on most<br>computers, so we gave USB's to presenters only, who we thought would<br>likely be forgiving if it didn't work) and we gave DVDs to everyone else.<br><br>So my question to the community is:<br>If you were given an OSGeo-Live DVD at FOSS4G 2010, were you able to<br>boot from it on your computer (and whatever other computers you may have<br>at home)?<br><br>If you have experience building a bootable USB, I'd also like to hear<br>from you.<br>Probably best to reply to myself and/or live-demo@lists.osgeo.org and<br>avoid swamping the discuss list with traffic.<br><br>On 03/08/11 06:26, Peter Batty wrote:<br>> Do you have a preference between DVD and USB? My laptop doesn't do<br>> DVDs so I guess I have an inclination for at least having some USBs in<br>> the mix. Don't know how costs compare though, will research further.<br><br><br>--<br>Cameron Shorter<br>Geospatial Director<br>Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050<br>Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254<br><br>Think Globally, Fix Locally<br>Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source<br><a href="http://www.lisasoft.com">http://www.lisasoft.com</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Live-demo mailing list<br>Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo</a><br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a><br>
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