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

ToddAndMargo ToddAndMargo at zoho.com
Thu Aug 14 18:24:02 UTC 2014


On 08/14/2014 11:22 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> 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


oops.  wrong group.  Never mind  :'[

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