Hello Terry, If I understood you correctly, you want to do some modifications to the LiveOS image. On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 12:56 AM Terry Polzin <foxec208(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: I'd argue that the operating system installed persistently to the USB drive by some custom method ensuring only some minimal requested set of packages is installed would be a better option for most use cases, also allowing to upgrade the OS to the latest version. It should also be possible to set up the system in such a way that any unwanted changes to the system are not saved between reboots. However I understood from your sentence above that you don't want to take this approach. There is a way to make a custom bootable live image of Fedora. Every few months someone on these mailing lists asks about it. You might want to check Fedora mailing list archives for that. I also found this page that might help you: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image/overlay Though I'm not sure how up-to-date it is. In general, I'd suggest 'LiveOS' and 'SquashFS' as keywords for your search. -- Michal Schorm Software Engineer Core Services - Databases Team Red Hat -- On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 12:56 AM Terry Polzin <foxec208(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > Basically I need a procedure to > > Remove the livecd user and disable auto login. > Keep grub intact on the USB and write it's updates there. > > I'm perfectly happy booting the USB via the BIOS. I am currently testing with the XFCE-live image. > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue

Barry, I tried that, the installer only seems to consider devices it detects as hard drives. On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 5:57 PM Barry <barry(a)barrys-emacs.org&gt; wrote:

On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 10:25 PM Terry Polzin <foxec208(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: I have often installed Linux on USB memory "sticks". Boot the Live Linux installer and check the status of the USB stick with "Disks". I have often used Linux installs on USB sticks to rescue data from non-booting Windows boxes, but now you can get external USB-C cases that hold NVME drives, and cheap 128GB NVME left over after a larger drive was installed. These are much faster than USB sticks. -- George N. White III

This did work installing the live image to an M2 NVME. Thanks for all the responses. On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 6:27 AM ja <ja(a)jaa.org.uk&gt; wrote:

Sorry, Live ISO was installed on the NVME which is in an external case and connects to USB On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 4:51 PM George N. White III <gnwiii(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: