Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

2018-05-21 Thread Aleksandar Kostadinov
Hi and thanks for all replies. The `dracut-config-generic` package did the job with Fedora 28. I'm actually building this for a non-technical person. What I did was: * install on stick with netinst fedora image (BIOS mode) * choose XFCE desktop * choose basic layout (without LVM) with ~20GB

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

2018-04-26 Thread Richard Shaw
On somewhat of a tangent... I wonder if Fedora Atomic Workstation would be useful for portable Fedora? I would probably fix the problem of updating packages taking forever on Flash memory... Downloading now... Richard ___ users mailing list -- users@lis

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

2018-04-26 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/26/2018 06:56 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: I was originally trying to get Fedora-on-a-stick working with a USB 3.0 stick w/ a 32GB Class 10 SD card. The performance with a "standard" install was not acceptable and updates took WA too long. Since the performance using the live method

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

2018-04-26 Thread Richard Shaw
I was originally trying to get Fedora-on-a-stick working with a USB 3.0 stick w/ a 32GB Class 10 SD card. The performance with a "standard" install was not acceptable and updates took WA too long. Since the performance using the live method with a compressed image was WAY better I was try

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

2018-04-24 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/23/2018 07:20 AM, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: Hi, I'm reading documentation [1] for Fedora on a USB stick. The only option to have a portable fedora on a stick seems to be by creating an overlay FS and this certainly leads to getting out of disk space at some point. I would really lik

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

2018-04-24 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 23-04-18 16:20, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: Hi, I'm reading documentation [1] for Fedora on a USB stick. The only option to have a portable fedora on a stick seems to be by creating an overlay FS and this certainly leads to getting out of disk space at some point. I would really like

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

2018-04-24 Thread Ron Leach
On 23/04/2018 20:10, Samuel Sieb wrote: This makes all the initramfs files that dracut creates to be equivalent to the "rescue" version, meaning that they have all the kernel modules instead of just the ones for the system it was installed on. Does making the kernel equivalent to the "rescue" k

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

2018-04-24 Thread ja
On Mon, 2018-04-23 at 23:52 +0300, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > ja wrote on 04/23/18 20:28: > > On Mon, 2018-04-23 at 17:20 +0300, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm reading documentation [1] for Fedora on a USB stick. The only option > > > to have a portable fedora on a stic

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

2018-04-23 Thread Aleksandar Kostadinov
ja wrote on 04/23/18 20:28: On Mon, 2018-04-23 at 17:20 +0300, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: Hi, I'm reading documentation [1] for Fedora on a USB stick. The only option to have a portable fedora on a stick seems to be by creating an overlay FS and this certainly leads to getting out of disk spa

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

2018-04-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/23/2018 10:28 AM, ja wrote: My Fedora notes say this - not certain it is still valid - but I did it for F27. dnf install dracut-config-generic - To force a generic initramfs This installs a single file /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/02-generic-image.conf

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

2018-04-23 Thread ja
On Mon, 2018-04-23 at 17:20 +0300, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > Hi, > > I'm reading documentation [1] for Fedora on a USB stick. The only option > to have a portable fedora on a stick seems to be by creating an overlay > FS and this certainly leads to getting out of disk space at some point. >

portable (really) Fedora on stick

2018-04-23 Thread Aleksandar Kostadinov
Hi, I'm reading documentation [1] for Fedora on a USB stick. The only option to have a portable fedora on a stick seems to be by creating an overlay FS and this certainly leads to getting out of disk space at some point. I would really like to create Fedora on USB that I can plug anywhere and