[Fedora-livecd-list] persistence and "install to harddrive"

[Douglas McClendon]

Jerry Vonau wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> Just been playing around with a LiveUSB stick and persistence, and it
> occurred to me that if you make any changes at all, anaconda will not
> pick them up. The reasoning for this is that /usr/sbin/liveinst looks
> for: 
> 
> if [ -z "$LIVE_BLOCK" ]; then
>     if [ -b "/dev/mapper/live-osimg-min" ]; then
>         LIVE_BLOCK="/dev/mapper/live-osimg-min"
>     else
>         LIVE_BLOCK="/dev/live-osimg"
>     fi
> fi
> 
> "live-osimg-min" is setup as part of the livecd init script and is made
> up from the squashfs.img and osmin.img. Just wondering what the
> advantages are in having the init script setup this device over trying
> to create this device just before anaconda is called. 
> 
> Now the real question, what would be the best way to have anaconda
> pickup the persistent overlay for the "install to hard-drive" part.


Sure.  Why not go hog wild and just install rebootlessly too while you 
are at it :)

http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2007-July/msg00768.html

-dmc