1 Jul
2015
1 Jul
'15
12:54 a.m.
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, David Hare wrote:
On 30/06/15 06:55, Felmon Davis wrote:
thanks, this makes good sense.
I'm a bit pressed for time but I'll experiment with the things you
mention below when I have opportunity.
f.
[...]
in my case:
a) I don't think one can just copy stuff over to a livecd and have it
work. one has to deal with the special filesystem on a livecd; and
b) I don't want to install the system, I want to boot it, for instance
on a friend's Windows machine without disturbing their setup.
f.
Just copy the debs to your usb stick and install with dpkg -i .. you can
install what you want in a live session. The aufs filesystem holds changes in
ram until poweroff/reboot. However you can use "persistence" (see live-boot
man page) which will write changes to a file or partition and reload them
next boot. There is on my live-image a utility
"exegnu2usb" It is a normal bash script
rather than binary blob. I haven't tested it lately on Jessie though.
Unetbootin does nothing that can't be done from standard cli tools.
Here I use a 64gb usb with multiple live systems, some with persistence,
selectable at boot from menu. All on a single partition. You can't do that
with unetbootin nor dd.
There is also a remaster utility "refracta-snapshot" with which you may build
a new ISO from the running live session, with whatever you want preinstalled
(you need a mounted ext* partition for the "work" area). This is quite well
tested and works very well for a "personal", portable live-image.
I don't know much about PCLOS or if such utilities are available. The exegnu
images are deliberately designed to be "lightweight" and cd-size compared to
Alexandre's images. Whatever your needs, choice is good.
--
Felmon Davis
And exegnu is now too purist for this purpose.
Sorry Lisi.. I don't mean to be idealogically "purist". Till recently
exegnu
was for current mainstream Debian Stable but since Jessie I just don't want
to work with systemd and have opted to support Devuan.
Unless you mean not including nonfree (which I never did anyway). Exegnu is a
non-profit project which supports GPL and has no lawyers on the payroll.
D
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