On 5/26/20 7:46 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote:

On 5/26/20 12:24 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:

Note that since I using a live DVD,
changing a config file and
rebooting is not really an option.

Are you using a physical DVD or a live image put on USB?  If you put it on USB, then you can add an overlay so you can modify the config files.

I'd used an image on USB once and subsquently used a physical DVD,
mostly out of familiarity.
Could you give me a pointer on how to do overlays?

Assuming you have another computer available, install the "livecd-tools" package and run something like this:

livecd-iso-to-disk --format --msdos --overlay-size-mb 1024 Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-32-1.2.iso /dev/sdd

Replace the sdd with your USB drive, this will completely wipe the drive. Put the name of whatever iso image you're using instead of the workstation one. The 1024 makes a 1GB overlay. When you boot that drive, any changes you make will be persistent. You can install packages, change configs, whatever you want, up to 1GB of changes. There's also an option to create a home partition as well, optionally encrypted, but you don't need that right now. For now, the /home directory will be part of the overlay.

If you don't make any changes to the boot command line other than adding a "3" at the end, does it boot to a login prompt?

I'll check.

Is there any way to tell what resolution it uses for the menu screen?

I don't know of any way to tell.
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