its all cool, the release notes didnt have quite the same info so i dont mind elaborating on it again. The .img version made for USB, you just run this command to image the usb stick with the .img version not the .iso (after unzipping it the .img.gz makes the .img)aarf wrote:@sickgut sorry to make you repeat all that save stuff again. read the release notes for alpha pussy before you posted and the save info is mostly in there. i had forgotten it has been so long since i read it. but some useful new tips about squashfs in your latest post. thanks.
note i couldn't non-grub boot the latest iso when extracted and copied to usb flashdrive without first copying/adding the different boot things (isoliux folder and ldlinux.sys) from the alpha.
dd if=pussy-alpha-full-usb.img of=/dev/sdb
(note that its the drive thats specified, not the drive AND partition, this is because the .img contains the parition info aswell)
I have not released the .img version for the beta preview yet, but you can still image a usb stick with the old alpha and then manually copy the new pussy-beta-os.sqaushfs and seamonkey.squashfs onto it and then you have a working usb stick. i will release beta preview .img versions on the website after i have finnished this last pussyxtra.squashfs file with the extra apps, so the beta preview is finally complete
its tricky to make the .iso usb bootable, so thats why we have the already to go .img that is actually a complete image of a usb stick and covers the first 699mb of your usb stick. (699mb is the expected size of the largest version of Pussy, this leaves room to upgrade the usb stick to newer or larger versions... also 1mb is set aside for more advanced boot stuff in the future, totalling 700mb).
there is 2 directions to go with the usb .img setup, we can either keep the image 700mb in size and leave it to the user to setup the persistent save file, or use gparted to extend the partition to cover the rest of the drive and then use the control-panel compressed save file method for saving.... this is direction number 1... and the current method.
number 2 is to pick a standard size for the usb image like 2gb or 4gb or 8gb, to support the most popular/ affordable size of usb stick. Just say we pick 4GB. We create a working 4gb usb stick that contains the full Pussy, ASWELL as a swap file or partition, and a live-rw file. This would be a fat32 format for the main partition so that the user can still use the usb stick in windows based machines. We also dont have to worry about disk fragmentation as the live-rw being a single file, it doesnt get very fragmented.
using the second method the user would never have to configure a thing at all, its all there. We could have separate downloads for different sized usb sticks.
note that the .img version can be imaged to a hdd and it works immediately without the user having to configure grub, but this would be the only booting OS on the HDD. This is cool if you just wanna use pussy, or you have multiple hdds in one computer and can change what one to boot from in the bios or the motherboards boot screen by pression f2 or f8/ f12 or esc or whatever. I used this method myself for a long time. And hdd writ e access works every time, when i use this method, i use the rest of the hdd space as a ext2 parition labled as live-rw.
again, you probably know all this but im elaborating for other users to read.