Re: [Tails-dev] Call for help: isohybrid.pl needs a maintain…

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Author: Michael Rogers
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Call for help: isohybrid.pl needs a maintainer
This might be a good opportunity to raise a question that I've been
wondering about for a while: how much work would be involved in
creating Tails installers for Windows, Mac and Linux that would be
able to create USB sticks capable of holding persistent storage,
without the need for a DVD burner?

Cheers,
Michael

On 10/11/14 17:14, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> our manual installation method for Mac relies on isohybrid.pl. It's
> needed when people have a Mac without a DVD reader, and no external
> one handy.
>
> syslinux upstream wants to remove isohybrid.pl:
> http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-June/022267.html
>
> ... unless someone commits to maintain it:
> http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-June/022289.html
> http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-June/022280.html
>
> Any taker?
>
> Any alternative way one can thing of to support this use case?
>
> Cheers,
>