Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 12:18 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
My laptop runs Mandriva, but because I do end-user support for both Mandriva and Fedora issues I'd like to have both systems. Unfortunately I simply don't have enough drive space to install another OS, so I wondered whether I could actually install F9 onto an 8GB usb stick.
I've read http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo and http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/07/i-am-fedora-and-so-can-you/, but these seem to refer to a non-upgradable system. Since I need to be able to use KDE 4.1 that won't suffice.
You can do updates -- the only things are
- Consistently updating will require significant amounts of space
within the writable overlay. And the amount of space required will increase over time -- dm-snapshot will never again write to a block after it's done so once
Never say never. Or at least, not in this case. If you find a way to swing a 4G overlay for an f9 system, you will never run out of overlay space.
The problem is that with reasonable sized overlay files, the likelyhood of blocks getting reused is small.
-dmc