On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:22:49 +0200
Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip(a)kanarip.com> wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 23:30 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> The second just wants USB media like the LiveCD but with a real RW
>> filesystem.
>
> I think that for this, you should just install to the USB stick.
> That should work these days and if it doesn't, then we should just
> fix it rather than papering over by allowing something like this.
>
Right. Mind that it's not me who created the wish-list, I think it was
David in the early days after FUDCon in Boston.
The second (USB sticks) seems far more important to me then the
stateless-but-persistent one.
USB sticks play a big part in the first and really are in a lot of ways
the more interesting case especially if you then do the second step of
having an encrypted home dir setup. I ran with the second half of this
while waiting on a replacement drive for my laptop; with work to make
it easy to setup and to fix the weirdnesses (of which lack of
persistence was the biggest as I had to keep reinstalling the packages
I had forgotten in my config), this could be really compelling to use
on a regular basis
Jeremy