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. If you are think of trying other distribution's ISOs you are going to have to abandon grml-rescueboot and do it directly with your own grub entries. Its not too hard but every distribution is different. Actually, many ISOs are hybrid ones and dd to a USB stick is by far the easiest route. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140818172740.gg22...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
