[Fedora-livecd-list] Is it possible to have an updatable system on a usb stick?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 04 August 2008 21:20:18 Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Anne Wilson 
<cannewilson at googlemail.com>wrote:
> > On Monday 04 August 2008 18:48:44 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Monday 04 August 2008 13:54:30 Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > > This got filed relatively recently and fixed up.  For F9-based
> > > > images, though, you'll have to do a workaround of removing
> > > > the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.rpm* (or at least, move
> >
> > them
> >
> > > > out of the way)
> > >
> > > I thought I was almost there.  I gave it an overlay of 6533 MB, got it
> > > booted and running on the EeePC, then started the big update.
> > > Unfortunately that took so long that the battery ran out while I was
> > > away from it.  There could be packages still in the cache to be
> > > installed, but
> >
> > I
> >
> > > can't move about at all.  I have a bash  prompt but it doesn't
> > > recognise basic bash commands such as cd and mv.
> > >
> > > It's clear from the warning message I got that I do need to do the
> > > workaround mentioned above.
> > >
> > > Any advice on how to proceed?
> >
> > I now have the exact messages in front of me:
> >
> > usb 2-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71
> > sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> > sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> > /init: line 478: /sysroot/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev*: ambiguous redirect
> > Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell.  Good luck!
> >
> > (by which I guess it means I'll need it :-) )
> >
> > The prompt says
> > bash-3.2#
> >
> > and doesn't recognise commands.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Go into /etc/udev/rules.d/ and delete the extra file with the rpmsave or
> rpmnew.
>
> Richard

I can't Richard.  It doesn't recognise any commands, and the file system isn't 
accessible if I boot from the hard drive.

Anne
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