Ronny Standtke wrote:
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.
I'm missing something there. How?
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
If I read that page correctly, "swapon" is something that has to be specified when initially creating the live image. I was looking for a means to use a unmodified image from debian.org .
If I can't, it is not a deal breaker as:1. I was intending to learn how to create my own live systems anyway. 2. I am a retiree learning the guts of Debian via a large dose of experimentation.
Thank you