Live USB?
Knute Johnson
linux at www.knutejohnson.com
Mon Sep 29 17:46:17 UTC 2008
Chris Snook wrote:
> 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
>
Thanks for responding Chris. Unfortunately this stuff just takes too
much time to get working and I don't want to spend any more on it.
--
Knute Johnson
linux at www.knutejohnson.com
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