Fedora 10 Live USB

[Phil Meyer]

Peter Kim wrote:
> I created Fedora 10 Live USB today and played with it for a while.
> I just found out that none of the configurations and privately 
> installed software were not saved at all when I booted with USB again 
> at home.
> I thought that I could save my personal settings and software to USB. 
> Am I wrong?
> Or is there any special procedure that I have to perform before I shut 
> down?
>
> Peter

There is a special procedure for creating the Live USB.

You need to add persistent storage for root, to make updates, and you 
need to add persistent storage for home in order to keep user added 
stuff, like changed Gnome settings.

Here is an example -- the amount of persistent storage is limited to 2GB 
per file, on FAT based file systems.  It does not have a realistic limit 
for ext3 based file systems.

/usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk [--reset-mbr] [--noverify] 
[--overlay-size-mb <size>] [--home-size-mb <size>] [--unencrypted-home] 
<isopath> <usbstick device>

Use: --overlay-size-mb 1000
to add a 1GB file that the OS can use to keep 'changes'

Use: --home-size-mb  2000
to add a 2GB file which gets mounted as /home, meaning if you have a 
package that adds a user and user files, it gets overlayed. :)  You 
probably want to also add
--unencrypted-home unless you are worried that your wife/boss/police 
might learn nasty things about you (like credit card data or web logins 
or confidential company documents).

I would suggest reloading the thumb drive with some persistent storage 
added.

God Luck!