On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM, jdd <jdd@dodin.org> wrote:

Le 05/01/2016 22:16, Pablo Dotro a écrit :

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Greetings!

I know most of the Ubuntu derivatives can be made into portable, persistent installs in USB drives. Is it possible to do the same with openSUSE? I need to be able to run some hardware compatibility tests and performance measurements in a new set of workstations, and doing them under oS, without disturbing the already installed Windows version is a requirement (hardware compatibility with oS is one of the things I need to test). I need to be able to customize, install, remove and save data to the oS install, so it needs to be persistent between sessions. Does anyone know if this is possible, and how to go about it? Thanks in advance!

Pablo Dotro DF-FCEyN-UBA

I think most if not all live openSUSE do that

jdd

Even more so, I think anything produced in SuseStudio and then installed on a flash drive will do that. https://susestudio.com/ The first time you boot, the boot image will see the extra space on the flash drive and use it for permanent space as I recall. It is not something I have ever needed, so I have done this. If you don't feel like building your own appliance, check out the gallery: https://susestudio.com/search?order=popularity I find it hard to find stuff in the gallery so you may find it easier to just build your own. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2016-01-06 at 10:06 +0100, Gustav Degreef wrote:

On 01/05/2016 10:43 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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I think most if not all live openSUSE do that

Yes, since some release number, I forget which one. All current lives (11.4, 13.1, 13.2) do it. But the KDE/Gnome lives are designed for installation. I find the XFCE aka Rescue image more suitable for the OP scenario. However, there are no lives for Leap (unless things have changed without me noticing), so you have to create your own with SUSEstudio.

I've installed a persistent OS 13.1 onto a 16 GB flash drive to test hardware. I don't recall the page, but instructions are in the opensuse SDB. I've also installed OS 13.2 onto a 256 GB Samsung T1 external SSD (very compact and portable). The SSD install was a regular install from a DVD. Both systems can be updated with the regular OS updates. Both systems will boot on a compute that allows booting via the USB interface. However, I found that the USB flash system is much, much slowwer than the SSD install to the point where I have given up using it even on systems with 8 gb or more of ram. The SSD cost me a bit over 100 dollars and it's only real drawback (for me) is that the KDE desktop seems to display with different resolutions on each system and I have not been able to get it to display quite the way I like. HTH, Gustav.

Notice that a "real" install on a stick will be slower, because it has not been adjusted for running on a stick. I would expect a live system to have the syslog output reduced, so as to write less or not at all. A USB stick is a slow write device. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlaU8VwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WDkgCcC+Rdnk5D1k+7C86YHLfNZz4L 6aUAnizY4ZYx9bDqNTfUN5g+kVDRU/dv =or/K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 2016-01-12 14:35, jdd wrote:

Le 12/01/2016 13:28, Carlos E. R. a écrit :

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However, there are no lives for Leap (unless things have changed without me noticing), so you have to create your own with SUSEstudio.

if you follow the links to "other variants", you find some, beginning to the e.d.u one, but no official

Yep. I'm still trying to create my own image. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)