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

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 04 August 2008 23:06:16 Richard Shaw wrote:
> > 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
>
> You'll have to rezero your overlay file and start over then... You can do
> it manually from a windows or linux box but the dd command is a little
> different for each. On a linux box it's something like:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/mount/path/LiveOS/overlay-{LABEL}-{UUID} bs=1M
> count={size of overlay in MB}
>
> Or on windows (the dd.exe is located under tools in the liveusb-creator
> directory)
>
> dd.exe if=/dev/zero of={drive letter}:\LiveOS\overlay-{LABEL}-{UUID} bs=1M
> count={size of overlay in MB}
>
> Just look at the current name of your overlay file and overwrite it rather
> than looking up the LABEL and UUID.
>
> I, like others, have created an extra entry in my syslinx.cfg without the
> overlay option just in case I hose my overlay file and still want to be
> able to use it.

Hi, Richard.  I decided that I might as well start again from the 
beginning :-)

The install seems to go well enough, as does the update, right to the very 
end.  I glanced at the screen when it had about 5 packages still to go in the 
cleanup, but the next time I looked it said:

File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 597, in 
call_blocking
message.append(signature=signature, *args)
TypeError: More items found in D-Bus signature than in Python arguments.

Is this a big problem?

I had removed /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules, but I see it has been 
created again.  This time there is also a 50-udev.nodes.  Do I delete both of 
these?

Anything else I need to deal with before attempting a reboot?

Anne
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