Live USB?

Chris Snook csnook at redhat.com
Tue Sep 23 17:14:53 UTC 2008


Knute Johnson wrote:
> Chris Snook wrote:
>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>> If I put the live CD on USB with live-usb creator can I not update 
>>> it? I just get a boatload of errors.
>>
>> With liveUSB, the original image is static, and any changes to files 
>> in the image must go in the overlay space, so you'll need a big USB 
>> stick and a lot of overlay space to do this.
>>
>> -- Chris
>>
> 
> I have 4GB stick and I set the max (2047mb) for persistent space.

The live image is compressed, but the files in the overlay are not.  You may be 
running out of overlay space.  What errors are you getting?

-- Chris




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