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. > > I would really like to create Fedora on USB that I can plug anywhere and > work off it. > > I was thinking that perhaps I can just install regular fedora on a USB > stick like I would do on a hard drive. Then it can be updated and used > just like any other Fedora machine. Perhaps disable persistent logging > and swap so that flash memory doesn't wear out. > > One issue I presently know about is dracut. It creates by default images > that only support a specific hardware. i.e. if I install kernel on a > machine with an nforce disk controller, it will put in intird only that > module thus Fedora will not boot on a machine with AHCI controller. > > Maybe this wouldn't matter when all things are on the USB drive but then > can there be a problem with different USB controller modules? > > I was wondering if anybody tried that and has tips for greated portability. > > Thank you, > Aleksandar > > I have been doing this for several years, currently F27, but only as a recovery Stick. I just do a standard install but use a custom disk layout using ext4 / partition - no LMV. gdisk -l /dev/sda Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 1026047 500.0 MiB EF00 EFI System 2 1026048 1028095 1024.0 KiB EF02 BIOS boot partition 3 1028096 3125247 1024.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem 4 3125248 19902463 8.0 GiB 8200 Linux swap 5 19902464 61800414 20.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem I have recently been using a Corsair GT 32GB stick This one would be much better 128GB Corsair Flash Voyager GTX USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A Pendrive, Black, 460MB/s Read, 460MB/s Write, 33k/40k IOPS, PC/Mac £67.99 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 hostonly="no" I have not done the following - I waited for a kernel update. To force an existing kernel to use a "fully configured" initramfs file then dracut --regenerate-all --force NB this will regenerate and over-write all /boot/initramfs* file Make copies first if required John _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
