<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Xander Pirdy wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:f92895bd1001270517t511e9e7bocf6baaea78fcff8@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Thomas C Gilliard < <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com">satellit@bendbroadband.com</a>> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> I have done it. and it works. NO Persistence though 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: </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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. If you are using partitions to create persistence though we again may loose some features. 1) The space for the overlay is much more limited, or the initial partition (FAT) is unusable for anything else. </pre> </blockquote> opensuse creates a real file system on the usb on first boot. the second partition is looked for on boot and used if present check with cyberorg on #sugar or #opensuse-edu for details (he is in INDIA so be aware of time zones) <blockquote cite="mid:f92895bd1001270517t511e9e7bocf6baaea78fcff8@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 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. </pre> </blockquote> not needed for virtual machine here: This is a bootable USB with persistence + a real file system you can edit <blockquote cite="mid:f92895bd1001270517t511e9e7bocf6baaea78fcff8@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">3) How will the system act when that partition fills up? 4) It complicates the setup, unless there is a very good script -Alexander Pirdy </pre> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org">SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>