ate: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:25:40 -0500
From: Douglas McClendon
<dmc.fedora(a)filteredperception.org>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] RFC- 'persistance'
is on LiveCD
wishlist - what does it mean?
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Jeremy Katz wrote:
I somewhat suspect that the answer is to get
together the quick path for
each of these (explicit specification of where the
persistence
is,
require manual set up) and just see how things work.
I agree, and was planning on going ahead and trying
out some ideas myself. I
just want to make sure I take into consideration any
particular use-cases that
people may already have in mind. And in particular,
I'm hoping that if a good
end-user implementation already exists somewhere that
I'm oblivious to, that
someone mentions it.
Knoppix, at least from what I see, still uses
unionfs, >so
thats not interesting
for us.
ubuntu also uses unionfs, and their persistence
support looks like a mess right
now-
googling for "[gentoo/suse/mandriava] livecd
persistence" didn't yield anything
immediately obvious (look I managed to spell it
correctly there :)
Anyway, I'll see what I can do in the next week or
two.
-dmc
I have been using centos livecd a little bit. I use
their Perrsistence feature although I don't think it
does all you have proposed here. The way I use it is:
Boot the CD
Configure it the way I like it, passwords, resolution
Cookies and stuff in the browser,etc.
When finished I click on a feature called "save local
resources"
The popup then asks me where to save it. In my case I
specify /dev/hda ( I guess it could be a USB stick)
The program then creates a directory called
CENTOS_LIVECD (or something similar) on dev/hda and
tars several files, /home, .etc/ password and so
forth.
When I boot later the boot process finds that
directory and untars the files onto my system.
I haven't played with it enough to know all that it
does. For example if I installed a program outside of
my home directory, I don't know if it would retrieve
that. Also I have seen no documentation of this
feature. I asked on the cent_os list and didn't get
any answer.
It seems like a worthy feature for a livecd if one
wishes to use it a lot.