<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Thomas C Gilliard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com">satellit@bendbroadband.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I have done it. and it works. NO Persistence though<br>
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opensuse-edu does this also with an added twist. you can use fdisk (or
a script) to build a persistence partition after creating th usb with
dd:</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unless I am mistaken, you would also be able to manually make the overlay, though you might have to tweak syslinux.cfg (I think) afterwards as well. I also think that this is similar to what the image-writer script on the main page does.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you are using partitions to create persistence though we again may loose some features.</div><div>1) The space for the overlay is much more limited, or the initial partition (FAT) is unusable for anything else.</div>
<div>2) I am unsure about booting a virtual machine if it will be able to mount multiple partitions at boot, it might be feasable, but it also</div><div>might just unnecessarily complicate things. Especially if the persistence partition was in something that windows couldn't read - I have no idea how this would act. </div>
<div>3) How will the system act when that partition fills up?</div><div>4) It complicates the setup, unless there is a very good script </div><div> </div><div>-Alexander Pirdy</div></div>