Ken--
"Are saying that when running from the live image yum install or rpm will magically install the new files to the USB image??" This is indeed what the others are stating. As long as you specify a large enough overlay-size while creating a liveusb moblin-image via moblin-image-creator (using the flag '--overlay-size-mb=<number of MB to be used as persistent storage>'), alterations to the original moblin-image you've created will be persisted to the USB storage your image was initially transferred to. This is a goodly part of the logic behind specifying which file-system you want to use for your liveusb image with --fstype=<ext3 or vfat are your choices with this flag>. I would opt for ext3 for the USB image's file system if you are seeking to modify the live image 'in place' with additional software and/or drivers. Peace, Jed Cousin "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." --Antoine de Saint Exupéry -- On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:52 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
