Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (340 mails)

[jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Stephan Kulow a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> It has been my goal to support the LiveCD ISO also on a USB and let it
> make the changes you do in ~linux store persistently on the USB stick
> (so you can e.g. try easily the same thing on different computers).

is ~linux your home? if so it seems good ("persistent" data)

> Now I got my first bug report claiming this is not wanted and should only 
> be done if explicitly asked for.

I don't see really the problem if the image itself is not modified?

> is the question why you would want to store things in memory if you have
> plenty of room on the stick.

I dont see any interest in this option, but if it's really simple to
implement...
> And then there is a 3rd option: copy the _content_ of the .iso into an 
> existant vfat file system and create a vfat mbr (using syslinux). There
> the changes would end up as additional file in the vfat and may take up
> some room that you might want for other things.

why vfat? one can une NTFS or ext2
> In both cases the changes to the ISO will be an additional file (named copy-
> on-write - .cow) that is easy to erase if you want to start from scratch.

that's good.

In fact, I presume in some time (months? years?) when booting on USB
will be more standardized, having the system on USB may be largely spread.

for now, many computer don't boot USB, or not always :-(. Puppy Linux
and Parted magic allow creation of very small bootable USB key, but I
have to admit that the only time I had to use it, the computer didn't
allow it to boot :-(

* don't forget USB can be very large, even hard drive
* include flash cards (sd card) with non /dev/sdx device name

jdd

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