[Fedora-livecd-list] Is it possible to have an updatable system on a usb stick?

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Monday 04 August 2008 18:48:44 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 04 August 2008 13:54:30 Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > This got filed relatively recently and fixed up.  For F9-based images,
> > > though, you'll have to do a workaround of removing
> > > the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.rpm* (or at least, move
> them
> > > out of the way)
> >
> > I thought I was almost there.  I gave it an overlay of 6533 MB, got it
> > booted and running on the EeePC, then started the big update.
> > Unfortunately that took so long that the battery ran out while I was away
> > from it.  There could be packages still in the cache to be installed, but
> I
> > can't move about at all.  I have a bash  prompt but it doesn't recognise
> > basic bash commands such as cd and mv.
> >
> > It's clear from the warning message I got that I do need to do the
> > workaround mentioned above.
> >
> > Any advice on how to proceed?
> >
> I now have the exact messages in front of me:
>
> usb 2-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71
> sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> /init: line 478: /sysroot/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev*: ambiguous redirect
> Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell.  Good luck!
>
> (by which I guess it means I'll need it :-) )
>
> The prompt says
> bash-3.2#
>
> and doesn't recognise commands.
>
> Anne
>

Go into /etc/udev/rules.d/ and delete the extra file with the rpmsave or
rpmnew.

Richard
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