On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:22:49 +0200 Jeroen van Meeuwen kanarip@kanarip.com wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 23:30 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
The second just wants USB media like the LiveCD but with a real RW filesystem.
I think that for this, you should just install to the USB stick. That should work these days and if it doesn't, then we should just fix it rather than papering over by allowing something like this.
Right. Mind that it's not me who created the wish-list, I think it was David in the early days after FUDCon in Boston.
The second (USB sticks) seems far more important to me then the stateless-but-persistent one.
USB sticks play a big part in the first and really are in a lot of ways the more interesting case especially if you then do the second step of having an encrypted home dir setup. I ran with the second half of this while waiting on a replacement drive for my laptop; with work to make it easy to setup and to fix the weirdnesses (of which lack of persistence was the biggest as I had to keep reinstalling the packages I had forgotten in my config), this could be really compelling to use on a regular basis
Jeremy