[Fedora-livecd-list] Live USB install to disk question

[ToddAndMargo]

On 08/11/2014 08:18 PM, Frederick Grose wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:59 PM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo at zoho.com
> <mailto:ToddAndMargo at zoho.com>>wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     I have a Live USB flash drive I cherried out for my
>     own purposes.
>
>     If I hit the install to disk option, what gets installed?
>     Just the stock stuff from the ISO?  Or do I get my slick
>     and cool customizations too?  (Not they are very hard to
>     put back on.)
>
>     Many thanks,
>     -T
>
>
> ​Check your version of /usr/sbin/liveinst.
> https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/anaconda.git/tree/data/liveinst/liveinst#n40
>
> Mine shows this:
>
> # Try to sort out where the live device is
> if [ -z "$LIVE_BLOCK" ]; then
>      if [ -b "/dev/mapper/live-base" ]; then
>         LIVE_BLOCK="/dev/mapper/live-base"
>      elif [ -b "/dev/mapper/live-osimg-min" ]; then
>         LIVE_BLOCK="/dev/mapper/live-osimg-min"
>      fi
> fi
>
> Knowing this, if you want to install your updated system, you might try
> removing live-base and renaming live-rw to live-base before running
> liveinst.
>
> sudo dmsetup remove live-base
> sudo dmsetup rename live-rw live-base
>
>   --Fred
>
>
Hi Fred,

    Thank you!

-T