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

[Jerry Vonau]

Douglas McClendon wrote:
> 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

That is where I'm heading ;-) That one has been bookmarked and on my to 
try list for a while.

Jerry