<div dir="ltr">Many distros also allow persistent overlays on the Live USB images. I know Fedora does, at least. The overlay works as a way to make permanent changes to the Live USB, but is limited by the size of the overlay partition.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 9:10 AM Brian Wall <<a href="mailto:kc0iog@gmail.com">kc0iog@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 2:34 PM Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:woodbrian77@gmail.com" target="_blank">woodbrian77@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Shalom<div><br></div><div>I haven't used live USBs much so this may be an</div><div>easy question to answer. I've been running Linux Mint</div><div>from a USB stick. It works fine, but each time I use it</div><div>I have to get some packages (git, C++ compiler, etc.)</div><div>again. I get the packages with apt-get install ...</div><div>Is there a way to get the packages to last from one boot </div><div>to the next? Tia</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Brian,</div><div><br></div><div>I did something like this once with Ubuntu. Instead of using apt (which grabs the latest packages and its dependencies) I just grabbed the .deb files that matched the running version of the live OS. Then I just put together a shell script to install them in the proper order. If you want to update after that you can, but you'll be updating a LOT of packages as a live distro gets quite stale.</div><div><br></div><div>But... why would you? What's your motivation for running a live system full time?</div><div><br></div><div>Brian</div></div></div>
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