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My review of Fedora 9 PreviewMy review of Fedora 9 PreviewPosted Apr 20, 2008 4:27 UTC (Sun) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)Parent article: Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!
I wrote up a mini-review of Fedora 9 Preview which can be found here: One new feature that I am excited about is the LiveUSB with persistant data. While the ability to create a LiveUSB stick from the LiveCD media has been a feature of Fedora for a while, the ability to have persitant data is new. For more info on that, see the interview with Jeremy Katz in Red Hat Magazine. I originally thought that the persistant data feature was only for user data but as it turns out it applies to the complete system... so not only can you store your documents... but you can also install updates, new applications, create accounts, and save settings. There is nothing special you have to do... it works just like a hard drive would.
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My review of Fedora 9 Preview Posted Apr 20, 2008 17:43 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] I've also got the live "CD" on a USB device with persistent storage. As you point out, it would be nice to find out how to make the updated kernel boot, though.My guess is that the updated kernel is installed in the wrong place and has to be copied to vmlinuz0 in the syslinux directory, but I haven't tried that yet.
My review of Fedora 9 Preview Posted Apr 21, 2008 22:47 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] A followup on the above: it should be possible to replace the kernel and the initrd from the /syslinux directory to update the stick, but the problem is that the initrd installed by "yum upgrade" in /boot is the wrong kind of initrd for a live "CD": it's only half the size and is missing a number of things. So a replacement initrd would be needed to go with the new kernel.
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