----- Original Message ----- From: "Rusty Lynch" <[email protected]>; "Rusty Lynch" <[email protected]> To: "Jim Carroll" <[email protected]> Cc: "Moblin_Dev" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:56 PM Subject: Re: [Moblin Dev] Installation of drivers into a Live image?
> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 09:13 -0700, Jim Carroll wrote: > > All, > > Is there any plan (or mechanism I've not spotted yet) to allow the > > installation of new components (e.g. hardware drivers into a Live image? > > > > I only have one netbook, which I also need to run Ubuntu. I don't > > want to install Moblin onto that machine just yet...... > > Are you asking how software (in general) is installed (i.e. using yum to > install rpms from a yum repository), or just how to persist changes made > on a live image? > > I'm guessing the second... > > The 'liveusb' style images persist filesystem changes on the USB key, so > as long as you are not installing too much then you just yum install (or > manually install a file or rpm from some other source) just like you > would if you had installed the image. > > > --rusty > Are saying that when running from the live image yum install or rpm will magically install the new files to the USB image?? _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
