[Fedora-livecd-list] Preventing access to /mnt/live (inter alia)

[J.Heather at surrey.ac.uk]

> Maybe you should just install Fedora to the USB stick instead of using
> the Live tools. (Oups, sorry list. :) )

I did look at this. The main trouble is that I don't have room! I'm
installing 5GB+ of stuff, and they're 4GB sticks. I could probably trim
it down, but the point is to install everything that might be used for
other exams in the foreseeable future.

The compression does a brilliant job--it takes it down to under 2GB,
leaving me plenty for overlay and persistent home.

(One of the few things I miss from my Windows days is the per-file
compression in NTFS. It would be really great to see that in ext2.)

I got them all to do their lab session using the sticks last week, and
it worked perfectly--in fact, it was noticeably snappier than booting
into Windows from the hard drive!

The one thing left to sort is the write cache. One of the machines
crashed, and one of them lost quite a lot of her work because it hadn't
hit the usb stick by then.

> > (I don't know if it's relevant, but currently I have to build this as
> > Fedora 11, because my first go is a 3D graphics exam, and they need the
> > proprietary ATI driver.)
> 
> The experimental MESA driver (r600_dri) works very well for me, at least
> for driving Compiz. (I switched back to composited Metacity though.)

Yes, it works fine for Compiz. It just won't cut it for OpenGL stuff,
though. When I run the exam using the mesa driver, I get about 3fps.

James