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• Launchpad Entry: mobile-iso-images

• Created: 2008-11-21

• Contributors: Emmet Hikory

• Packages affected:

Summary

Ubuntu Mobile and Ubuntu MID currently provide USB images. WIth the advent of USB creator, and as some users have trouble with USB images, ISO images should be provided.

Release Note

Ubuntu MID and Ubuntu UMPC are now also available in .iso format.

Rationale

.img and .raw extensions are confusing to users, and require special documentation. Further, the creation of such formats requires special workarounds in the image building scripts. This adds to the maintenance overhead for image management.

Use Cases

• Alice wishes to hand out 100 copies of the Ubuntu MID installation. She downloads the ISO file, and burns to CD, saving money on USB sticks.
• Bob's UMPC has an optical drive, but doesn't boot off USB. Bob burns the iso file onto CD and installs.
• Chris needs to boot off USB to install Ubuntu MID, and uses the usb-creator program to generate a USB bootable installer from the ISO image.

Assumptions

Design

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Implementation

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UI Changes

Should cover changes required to the UI, or specific UI that is required to implement this

Code Changes

Code changes should include an overview of what needs to change, and in some cases even the specific details.

Migration

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• data migration, if any
• redirects from old URLs to new ones, if any
• how users will be pointed to the new way of doing things, if necessary.

Test/Demo Plan

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This need not be added or completed until the specification is nearing beta.

Unresolved issues

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BoF agenda and discussion

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