Re: naive live USB question

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Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:23:00AM -0700, David L wrote:
>> I recently took a f11 live USB stick and used it to install
>> f11 on a second USB stick (my hard drive crashed and I
>> decided to temporarily just use a USB stick for a hard
>> drive... that worked amazingly well by the way, but I
>> digress).  I was wondering why the live USB creation process
>> can't just create the result of this process... ie, make
>> the stick look like a normal disk instead of the "persistent
>> overlay" thing?
> 
> Not a naive question, but I guess the answer is, you don't need the
> Live USB creation process to do that -- you can just install to a USB
> key using the standard installer.  The Live USB process grew out of
> the Live CD case, because it's a way to use one image in two different
> types of media.  If you want a bootable stick that's simply a piece of
> media like a hard disk, you can do that with Anaconda at any time,
> booting either your system or a VM guest with boot or installation
> media, and then installing to the USB key.
> 
It also lets you put more information for the same size stick. This
is because the CD uses a compressed file system. This works great
for a Live CD where the only way to change things is to burn a new
CD. (You can not write to the compressed file system. It also works
well when you just need a small space for storage of your files.
This works great for 2G and smaller sticks.

When you start getting into larger sticks, it becomes possible to do
a more normal install, with a limited package set.

Mikkel
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