Apparently the usb creator software is the same for Debian as it is for Fedora. Minor differences are how the files are extracted to the memory stick itself. Both have a persistence option
------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein 40 years in IT and going strong. Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, and tomorrow will be even better. mailto:[email protected] alternative: [email protected] www.itbms.biz --- On Sun, 3/27/11, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jeremy <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Is there a way with a bootable USB linux to... To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, March 27, 2011, 4:53 PM On 11-03-26 09:51 PM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > I used the Fedora software to create a bootable USB drive. It takes as > an argument, the ISO image of an operating system. > > As far as Fedora or Ubuntu goes, once the system is booted from the > flash drive, I would like to have some updates that I applied to the > memory image to also update the USB image. Is that a possibility? > > Typical desire is to add or update a few (not all) modules/applications, > and then exit gracefully. > > Can I do it with the tools that exist? > *------------------ > > * > > Regards > > * > Leslie On the Ubuntu livecd creator you can choose to make a persistent image file that saves any changes you make to a sort of diff file. So, yes you can do updates, install software, it is just like a normal running linux system. I do not know how fedora does it, but google around for USB persistence (or persistent) for info on how to set it up manually if they don't have an option for it in GUI. Jeremy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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