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

Douglas McClendon dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Tue Aug 5 03:57:19 UTC 2008


Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com 

>     The problem is that incorporating the changes back in basically boils
>     down to "make a new image".  Which isn't that difficult to do, it's just
>     a matter of having the disk space for it and also the time -- it'd
>     largely just be a matter of running good chunks of the livecd image
>     creation process over again.
> 
>     Jeremy
> 
> Well, I don't know about other users of the live USB system, but that 
> would be okay with me. A prereq. would be you have enough HD space to 
> copy the image, update it, and then copy it back to the USB drive.
> 

FYI I outlined the process here-

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2008-June/msg00024.html

-dmc




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