Live USB?

[Chris Snook]

Knute Johnson wrote:
> Chris Snook wrote:
>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>> Chris Snook wrote:
>>>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>>> If I put the live CD on USB with live-usb creator can I not update 
>>>>> it? I just get a boatload of errors.
>>>>
>>>> With liveUSB, the original image is static, and any changes to files 
>>>> in the image must go in the overlay space, so you'll need a big USB 
>>>> stick and a lot of overlay space to do this.
>>>>
>>>> -- Chris
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have 4GB stick and I set the max (2047mb) for persistent space.
>>
>> The live image is compressed, but the files in the overlay are not.  
>> You may be running out of overlay space.  What errors are you getting?
>>
>> -- Chris
>>
> 
> It won't boot anymore.  Says there is an error in intramfs.  Apparently 
> you can't update it.

You can't update the kernel or anything in the initrd.  You can update 
everything else, as long as you have the overlay space.

-- Chris