Re: Live USB

Many distros also allow persistent overlays on the Live USB images. I know
Fedora does, at least. The overlay works as a way to make permanent changes
to the Live USB, but is limited by the size of the overlay partition.

On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 9:10 AM Brian Wall <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 2:34 PM Brian Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Shalom
>>
>> I haven't used live USBs much so this may be an
>> easy question to answer.  I've been running Linux Mint
>> from a USB stick.  It works fine, but each time I use it
>> I have to get some packages (git, C++ compiler, etc.)
>> again.  I get the packages with apt-get install ...
>> Is there a way to get the packages to last from one boot
>> to the next?  Tia
>>
>
> Brian,
>
> I did something like this once with Ubuntu.  Instead of using apt (which
> grabs the latest packages and its dependencies) I just grabbed the .deb
> files that matched the running version of the live OS.  Then I just put
> together a shell script to install them in the proper order.  If you want
> to update after that you can, but you'll be updating a LOT of packages as a
> live distro gets quite stale.
>
> But... why would you?  What's your motivation for running a live system
> full time?
>
> Brian
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