On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 13:25 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 07/26/2017 08:01 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > I have an 8GB USB 3.0 key drive on which I want to install F26 Live
> > with room for an overlay and a home directory. I used
> 
> Your command doesn't include creating the home directory.

Hmm. I pulled it from here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_creat
e_and_use_Live_USB

There was no other option in the example for creating a writable /home.
In any case, the --home-size-mb option isn't the one causing the
problem. The command appears to start up correctly with that one and
without --overaly-size-mb.

> 
> >      livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 2048
> >      Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-26-1.5.iso /dev/sda
> 
> First, are you sure that you want to write to /dev/sda?

Yes, my SSD drive is /dev/nvme0. The USB stick gets mounted on
/dev/sda.

> 
> > and that does nothing and returns no error or status message, just
> > a
> > prompt. I have discovered that it is the --overlay-size-mb option
> > that
> > causes the no-op return. Without that, the command behaves as
> > expected,
> > prompting me to confirm that all data on the drive will be
> > destroyed.
> 
> I just tried it and it worked.  Have you tried different sizes for
> the 
> overlay?  What version of livecd-tools do you have?

Yes, doesn't make a difference. I think I should be OK up to 8GB total
for my 8GB USB drive and 4GB for each writable bit. It's the latest (I
think): livecd-tools-24.4-1.fc26.x86_64


-- 
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
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