----- 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 > Do you mean that when running from the live image yum install or rpm will magically install the new files to the USB image so that on the next boot they will be already installed? Ken _______________________________________________ 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
