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Making a custom live iso, then flashing it with persistent storage (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Recently, I've been wanting to make a custom live iso with a couple of tools that I need but I really don't know where to start or what to do... any help?

E: I didn't phrase my post correctly, I need a portable set of desktop tools for development, running on the gnome desktop

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not clear... Do you want a portable USB drive ? If that's the case it's easily doable with Arch or Fedora.

If you want a portable USB that you can modify AND flash then... It's a little more complicated. You can always make a bootable Arch USB then rsync in any existing drive but it seems a little complicated.

What you might want to do is create a simple install script. You can pretty much do it for any distro. It will consume more bandwidth than copying/writing an existing distro but will prevent MANY errors.

With Arch it's quite simple. I believe it might be as simple with Debian or any other distro.