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[Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>]

Am 23.09.2010 16:49, schrieb Bob Trevithick:
>> Sounds good. However, the image that is sent to the USB key is the current
>> Lubuntu ISO, while I need to remove most of the items in the Menu, add a
>> couple of applications, so I guess this is not what I need, and I should
>> look at "remastering" the ISO from the customized, running USB key.
>>     
> I'm quite a bit over my head here, compared to the others, but if
> you're running on a read/write USB device, why can't you add and
> remove packages like you normally would on any other disk?   Just a
> thought. :)
>   
A live usb stick runs from a highly compressed read only image
(filesystem.squashfs) stored on a rewritable fat partition.
So you can write changes to the fat portion of the usb stick but not to
the highly compressed image.
> Regards,
> Bob
>
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