On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 17:17:58 +0100, Marc Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This following might be naive - thanks in advance to just tell me if > it is. > > I used to "convert the ISO image to a USB image using > livecd-iso-to-disk. After upgrading to Fedora 13, I thought at first > that this conversion could now be avoided since the ISO image can now > also be used on USB. But there is a caveat: the filesystem being > read-only ISO9660, it is not possible to write on such a USB stick > (whereas my previous conversion technique allows that). > > Now here is the crazy idea: would it be feasible to get the best of > both worlds by switching to a read-write filesystem like UDF for > instance?
The os image is imbedded in a squashfs image so you are still stuff with read only for that part. UDF actually gets used for images over 4 GiB instead of iso8660. -- livecd mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd
