[Live-demo] Re: creating live dvd with custom workshop materials

[Alex Mandel]

Remastersys is tricky. I didn't realize your goal was to make an ISO 
from the USB stick. I'm not sure that will work. Normally we would 
suggest you use a Virtual Machine to make the ISO, since you need to 
have 4 GB of writable space available for the resulting image.

Yes, as you discovered not all methods of making a bootable usb result 
in "persistent storage" or "persistence" which is the ability to save 
changes to the extra space on the drive (outside the ISO file).

Thanks,
Alex

On 02/07/2012 03:09 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Apparently there are a few tricks with building a USB. As mentioned,
> Alex is the expert, and he mentioned on IRC that he was looking into it
> for you.
>
> Also, would you mind adding an entry into our history section, as
> demonstrated use of osgeo-live is what keeps our contributors motivated:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History
>
> On 08/02/12 09:31, Kurt Menke wrote:
>>
>> Hi Cameron,
>>
>> I never did get pendrivelinux to work. I used Make Startup Disk on my
>> ubuntu box and it worked perfectly. I was also able to get my
>> materials onto the resulting thumb drive.
>>
>> Now I'm in the final step of trying to create an ISO from the bootable
>> thumb drive. My goal is to create several bootable DVD's for
>> participants. I'm trying to use remastersys and it finishes, but the
>> ISO isn't created. Any thoughts on that?
>>
>> Believe it or not I've never used IRC but will try to get on and ask
>> there too.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kurt
>>
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