Re: A reasonable use of a "live image"?
>> II. It would be convenient to have a Live Distro reside on a USB stick
>> but have "persistence" and "swap" reside on a local harddrive. I would
>> want the USB stick to wander between machines and possibly transport
>> data files. Is this feasible?
> Sorry I am not able to help you with this.
Just create a "live-rw" partition on your hard drive. This will be
picked up by live-boot as the persistence layer. To use local swap
partitions you have to use the "swapon" boot parameter. See here for
details:
http://live.debian.net/manpages/2.x/en/html/live-boot.7.html
Cheers
Ronny
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