On 2018-04-15 10:54, ken wrote:
On 04/13/2018 05:53 PM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
May be you know this already, but Leap 15 is also available as a wonderful live:
https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.0/live/
wonderful, because it's taking all the available room on a usb device. Yes, it takes all the room of, say, a 16Gb usb pen....
That truly would be a nice feature. It's really a waste to put a, say, 4gb iso on a 32gb media and be wasting 28gb. But is it a property of the distro/iso per se...? or is it accomplished by the software which puts the iso on the media?
This is not new, the 13.x series used it. And before, it was used for a few years. It disappeared with Leap 42.x It is a normal installation ISO with a partition table and at least one partition, that is bootable and contains the live image. The first time it boots, it checks where it is, sees that it s an USB stick, and creates a writeable partition on the remainder of the stick. The system runs from the live partition but sends the writes to that partition, as an overlay. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)