On Mon 18 Aug 2014 at 10:50:48 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
On 18/08/14 09:11 AM, Brian wrote:
Which ISO are you using?
ElementaryOS...seems like a Gnome-based distro from what I've been
able to gather but it replaces a lot of Gnome stuff with its own
applications written in Vala (sp).
It does have a loopback.cfg, which is why grub can boot it from the
grml-rescueboot devised menu entry. The live image is mastered to use
Ubuntu's casper and the distribution itself is Ubuntu based. First
impressions are that it looks smart.
I boot from a USB stick, which doesn't give the fastest booting in the
west. From a CD it might be noticeably slower. Once the OS is going I
cannot say I'm disappointed with its snappiness.
I'm inclined to think increasing size of an ISO is not possible. Having
it access space outside the image is.
Yes that's the conclusion I've reached but how to do it is the
problem. For me this started as a way to try the distro without
booting from a CD but now it has stoked my curiosity about ISOs in
general.
How about a 'df -h'?
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/cow 1006M 191M 816M 19% /
udev 996M 4.0K 996M 1% /dev
tmpfs 403M 944K 402M 1% /run
/dev/sdc18 662M 662M 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/loop0 631M 631M 0 100% /rofs
tmpfs 1006M 8.0K 1006M 1% /tmp
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1006M 76K 1006M 1% /run/shm
/dev/sdc18 and /dev/loop0 are the ISO image. Note the 100%. /cow is a
copy-on-write filesystem; it will be in memory. I've some progams open
and did some downloading. Whatever happened to you would be a result of
running out of room on /cow and not the fault of too small an ISO image.
Take look at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence
and see what you think.