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running livecd from a hd without installing it



Alle Saturday 10 May 2008, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt ha scritto:
>        Hi all,
>
>      Dyne:bolic has a feature called "docking" where the user is able to
> simply copy the system directory from the CD to a partition (what can be
> done from inside a windows system too) and boot using it instead the cd
> content.

As in Debian Live e.g. "todisk=/dev/hda5" option?

> I find that awesome, since I can run my system everywhere and with 
> high speed, not having to work on a system running from a cd. I also don't
> have to change the installed system, after using linux, I just erase the
> dyne directory and leave.

The same apply here.

> The other cool thing is the so called "nesting", 
> where the system automatically recognizes a existent *.nst file that stores
> the users data and config files (/etc content for example) and loads it. Is
> there a way to do those things with a DebianLiveCD?

Like booting in debian live with "persistence" and using live-snapshot?

Not, yet, a gui to do that is needed, otherwise you will need to manually copy 
the live-snapshot output file on a partition somewhere.

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