I've just installed a persistent 64 bit Ubuntu karmic koala on a USB memory stick using the built in live cd creator. I could then install additional packages like skype and flash player and still have them there after a reboot. (the purpose of all this exercise was to test Linux hardware support at the dell kiosk - worked a treat).
Just make sure you have all the packages required to make LVM2 work. Good luck, Amos On 2/19/10, david <[email protected]> wrote: > Can it be done? > > All the instructions I've found on the net require installation of lvm2 > - not sure this is practical on Live CD, even if it was connected to the > net, which it isn't. > > The computer belongs to a club (I haven't had direct access to it yet) - > the "administrator" has vanished and taken the password with him and the > drive is now at least partly corrupted and won't boot without a root > password. > > fstab tells me it's LVM. > > OS is Fedora 7.x. Would a Fedora live CD mount it? DSL maybe? I don't > have either but would get one if it worked. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
