On 30/06/15 06:55, Felmon Davis wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2015, Robert Peters wrote: > >> On 29 June 2015 at 22:50, Felmon Davis <davisf@...> wrote: >> <snip> >>> ok, I may settle for PCL but my preference would be to know how to >>> integrate >>> the firmware into the livecd and use exegnu. I'll avoid Ubuntu in any >>> case. >> <snip> >> >> Check my latest post under "New amd64 exegnulinux devuan-based iso >> with TDE". If you have access to a distro with the non-free files, >> maybe you can copy them to the live flashdrive. Or copy them over >> after installation. >> R. > > I saw your post and congratulations for solving your problem. > > in my case: > > a) I don't think one can just copy stuff over to a livecd and have it > work. one has to deal with the special filesystem on a livecd; and > > b) I don't want to install the system, I want to boot it, for instance > on a friend's Windows machine without disturbing their setup. > > f. > Just copy the debs to your usb stick and install with dpkg -i .. you can install what you want in a live session. The aufs filesystem holds changes in ram until poweroff/reboot. However you can use "persistence" (see live-boot man page) which will write changes to a file or partition and reload them next boot. There is on my live-image a utility "exegnu2usb" It is a normal bash script rather than binary blob. I haven't tested it lately on Jessie though. Unetbootin does nothing that can't be done from standard cli tools. Here I use a 64gb usb with multiple live systems, some with persistence, selectable at boot from menu. All on a single partition. You can't do that with unetbootin nor dd. There is also a remaster utility "refracta-snapshot" with which you may build a new ISO from the running live session, with whatever you want preinstalled (you need a mounted ext* partition for the "work" area). This is quite well tested and works very well for a "personal", portable live-image. I don't know much about PCLOS or if such utilities are available. The exegnu images are deliberately designed to be "lightweight" and cd-size compared to Alexandre's images. Whatever your needs, choice is good. > And exegnu is now too purist for this purpose. Sorry Lisi.. I don't mean to be idealogically "purist". Till recently exegnu was for current mainstream Debian Stable but since Jessie I just don't want to work with systemd and have opted to support Devuan. Unless you mean not including nonfree (which I never did anyway). Exegnu is a non-profit project which supports GPL and has no lawyers on the payroll. D