Feature changed by: Liad Shani (liad) Feature #311321, revision 15 Title: Suse Studio Live USB SUSE Studio: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: a a (tremere51) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There is an option called USB raw image in Suse Studio and there should be another option for Live USB Hybrid image. USB raw image is not a live system image. It just installs the distro into the usb and extremely slow. There are some reasons why we should have an option for Live USB image. 1-Because of raw image is not compressed it takes so much space than live image.(600MB iso/2800MB raw) 2-Because of raw image saves your options with persistance, it lags all time but live image is read-only, it never lags. 3- Because of USB is slower than HDD and no hardware cache, it is not suitable for installing. It is more suitable for live image. For example Live image with usb boots 20 seconds, raw usb boots 70 seconds on my computer. 4- Because of Live image has compressed filesystem with cached datas in memory, programs respond very fast but in raw image programs respond very slow. 5- With persistance we are being forced to save options in raw image. What about the people who dont want to save options? What about the people who just want to use USB iso as playground? There must be some more reasons but these are enough to understand importance of Live Usb Hybrid image and differences with raw image. Of course it has some disadvantages like using more memory and cpu. But we should have this option to choose best filesystem for ourselves. Discussion: #1: Mustafa Hadi (mustafa1987) (2011-03-03 15:07:43) I think this is very important because I always install from openSUSE live images and I want to do this with my own appliances. #2: Nick Stefanisko (stefanis) (2011-03-29 21:52:58) Not being able to generate a LiveUSB is a major disappointment. Adding this feature should be a priority. #3: Terje Gulbrandsen (tertitten) (2011-05-10 22:55:17) Please add this feature, it's about time :) #4: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) (2011-05-23 22:35:10) Can't you put the CD iso on the USB stick? Might take a bit fiddling but this is a poweruser thing imho anyway... + #5: Liad Shani (liad) (2011-06-03 13:11:49) (reply to #4) + Just placing the CD iso on the USB stick doesn't work. The image needs + to be adapted using the isohybrid tool, and the startup script needs to + be adapted to work with vfat disks. I managed to get it working with + the following modified CDDevice function: http://suse-studio-users.1598176.n2.nabble.com/LiveUSB-tp4128237p5604192.htm... + However, it requires fiddling with kiwi and building locally. The manual + modifications cannot be uploaded back to Suse Studio. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311321