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The Debian-Live approach also provides some good opportunities. First and foremost, the very easy remastering makes it efficient to run with no persistent store quite often. For instance, upon...

Of course there have been a few upgrades to that version, but.. On the other hand, come on, it's still not three years old ;-)


user@live-debian:/media/sda8$ uname -a
Linux live-debian...

Utu, believe just what you want to, I am using this the way it is advertised to work, Which does not work. Terrible is no exaggeration. I could also add "pathetic" for the ways the same types of...

Not so far this time around. I didn't like the init at all when working on a 64 bit version from the Knoppix side 3 years ago.
So, eventually, it may be knoppified, but it's not something I look...

Debian-Live has a terrible way to handle overlays. All instances of live-rw encountered are sandwich-mounted together, even if the advertised label mechanism is used. So, basically, for safety one...

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Here, I work "somewhere" with a few GB free space. In this case, 15 GB would be enough.
The persistent store is /media/sda8/live-rw, and the compressed image file is...

Well - this has worked very well so far.
I write this from a remastered Live-Debian with no persistent storage, but with all previously installed packages crammed into a 4.2 GB filesystem.squashfs...

Actually, the basic idea in Debian-Live seems to be that you roll your own. I have used the standard 7.6 LXDE Live ISO from July as starting point, but I may try to create a new ISO from scratch...

I am quite a bit relieved to report that I have managed to coerce Debian Live into working quite similarly to a Knoppix Poor Man's Install.
Which means that I can use it with some degree of...

Yes, utu, I think there is little reason to discuss whether the Knoppix init and overall setup is better than current Debian Live. It's miles ahead. And I don't really understand why the Live guys...

After having worked with Debian Live (7.6) LXDE for a short while, I have some initial observations:

* CD++ sized starting point is much more practical than I thought. A 900 MB squashfs image...

I really don't know what may turn out to be practical. If the modifications are mostly made in the init, it should be possible to adapt to new Debian releases fairly simply, as long as they don't...

Some years ago, I merged Knoppix 6.4.4 and Debian Live to get a pure 64 bit Knoppix version. It was done by a lot of handwork and some guesswork, and 64 bit busybox then had kind of persistent bug...