Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Questions on livecd-iso-to-disk

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tuesday, March 03 2009, Williamson Grant said:
> Has anyone created a simple process to turn a livecd/livedvd directly to 
> a compressed usb image, i.e. bypassing the need
> to have a usb key itself.  Reasoning I am asking, I want to build and  
> maintain usb images on a remote server.

You can certainly just create an image with dd, losetup it and then use
that instead of an actual usb key.
> Has anyone already implemented full liveusb encryption(not just home)  
> with overlay, home. Or is the performance just too slow?

Encryption of the overlay is ... odd at best.  I guess that it's
probably doable, but the performance and risk of corruption is going to
increase exponentially.

Jeremy