[BozemanLUG] Live USB with persistence ?

[David Eder]

My approach to USB bootable Linux is really simple:  Use Virtualbox
pointed to the thumb drive as a hard drive and just do a normal install. 
No fancy overlays (you get space back when you delete stuff.)  Updating
via yum works.  No problems generally.  We've used this for F14, F17, and
CentOS 6.

Might wait a little on F18 until bugs get generally worked out.

David.

>
> Anyone have success with a live USB Flash install, with the filesystem
> persistence overlay ?
>
> I spent the last 3h messing around with a Fedora 18 live USB image, with
> 2G persistence overlay configured, only to discover that (for unknown
> reasons) the overlay is not in fact mounted. So any changes made to the
> filesystem are lost on reboot. Some Googling reveals that this was a
> known bug in Fedora 15, but the bug report claims it was fixed in 2010.
>
> Before I burn more time on what is not a high priority project (I'm
> attempting to show my son how to sand-box his Minecraft mod downloads),
> has anyone had success with any recent live usb distribution,
> specifically with persistence working ? I don't need to use Fedora, just
> something that has a usable Java for Minecraft, and drives his graphics
> card (ATI-something-orother).
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
>
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