Hi, if I understand piotr correct she/he wants to have his live system (as usually on USB or DVD) to run from HDD. So he wants to use a HDD (SSD?) as medium for his live-system.
Marco Am 08.06.2013 02:24, schrieb Ben Armstrong: > On 07/06/13 07:56 PM, piotr wrote: >> I would like to do a fix installation of live on 500MB flash drive. >> Howto install Wheezy READ ONLY system on a PC/Notebook 1:1 from usb with >> live hdd using Live Installer? > Clearly you have specific things in mind when you say "read only" and > "1:1", but truly I cannot make sense of either of them. > > In its strictest sense, a read-only system is absolutely useless. You > must be able to write *somewhere* to store the changing state of the > running system, even if only in a ramdisk. Live systems are such a > system, with a read-only layer in a union filesystem with a cow > (copy-on-write) layer in tmpfs. So if what you really want is a live > system, why bother installing it? Just run the live system. > > What do you really mean by 1:1? A live system and an installed system > are very different in how they boot and how they operate after they > boot, so of course it is not really a 1:1 copy. You end up with a lot of > the same material as you did on the live system, but the copy is not > exact, as the live-specific bits are removed. But if the live-specific > bits are removed, then it doesn't satisfy your "read-only" goal ... and > again, if you wanted a read-only system, why not just run a live system? > > So I'm left confused by your terminology, because you haven't really > explained what you want in the end. If you want to run a live system, > you really don't want to use live-installer to install it. You just want > to put the live system itself on the boot drive of your system (via, > say, dd or so -- or if you don't want to wipe out all partitions on that > drive, you'll have to just take the files themselves and manually set up > the bootloader to boot into it). > > Ben > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
