Slightly customizing a bootable live USB?

Ralf Mardorf kde.lists at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 13 20:17:17 UTC 2021


On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:11:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:48:17 -0400, Little Girl wrote:
>>If you just want to add a couple of
>>programs to the USB stick, you should be able to just put them onto
>>the USB stick next to the ISO. We've done that successfully in the
>>past and unless something has changed, it should still work.  
>
>Yesno,
>
>it's possible via casper, when using ventoy, as I do, see
>https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1948404#p1948404 .
>
>I didn't read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence ,
>but casper is involved, too.

You can run (copied) programs from another partition, but that's a cheap
workaround. It's more reliable to install them to the regular PATH
locations, IOW to make a persistent USB stick. 




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