[Fedora-livecd-list] LiveUSB to LiveUSB with F7?

[Douglas McClendon]

C S wrote:
> Gee, I was thinking the same, should be possible in
> theory, wanted to find out if I was the only one
> actually trying it...
> 
> I put the repo off on a partition with livecd-creator,
> booted with a LiveUSB and setup the prereq's.  I've
> tried it with and without the image in RAM with
> --tmpdir reassigned.
> 
> However, during the install it seems to always fail
> usually in the vicinity of the kernel:
> 
> ...
> 
> localhost kernel: journal commit I/O errorrpmdb: fsync
> Input/output error
> error: db4 error(5) from db->sync: Input/output error
>   Installing: python-libs                 
> ##################### [ 98/112] 
> 
> 
> Ideas!?

My first guess would be that you are running out of ram.  Maybe another 256M 
would do it, or maybe David or Jeremy know of some aspect of the install that 
might be creating files outside of tmpdir (i.e. eating up your ram).

If you've got a big liveusb, maybe once my persistence patch is ready for 
primetime, that would help (moving the RW space from ram to usb/disk).

-dmc