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Hi
Bravo, a really very friendly ISO! Thank you for the details making the work simply.
I did start live as proposed and it works very well. I am totaly happy with that success and don't need more actually ;-)) !
But I don't will have to use each start an usb stick...
A bit desapointed:
Why not install exactly so on a free partition?
Can I save the system as on the USB stick directly on the Harddisk into a free partition (or new directory in an actual used partition) and start it using Grub?
How to do that?
banned_9-26-2021
1 There is a new 2021-07 image, a few days old
2 If you use the installer and install JWM in a partition, how is it different from the live?
3 Nearly 2 years ago, on the old installer, there was an option to copy the live system into a partition. This was not applied again, I think basically due to 66 development. Development at that era was really drastic and setup of trees and services required manual intervention between upgrades or the system would break. For a while now this is not an issue anymore, and any changes pass from the previous setup to the next. So if you copied a system from 2 years ago and upgraded the system wouldn't reboot unless you manually rearranged trees and services.
4 There still is a way to copy a live Arch system into a partition, but you have to do the necessary work. copy -ax / /mnt/ -->
edit /etc/fstab (use gennfstab -U / ), mkinitcpio (or dracut) to make the kernel image again based on a new partition/UUID. Change root and user passwords, and maybe change username. Set up a bootloader (syslinux or grub). As far as I have experimented 66 is not affected at all by the move, you don't have to do anything.
5 If you setup your live usb stick with a 2nd partition you can setup persistence by defining the persistent volume at the boot screen.
6 --> 2 If you choose JWM and install it graphically the outcome is the same for jwm. You can't install xfce4 and get jwm :)
But the installer doesn't copy anything from live, it installs from the network the latest. When you reboot there should be nothing to upgrade. By copying a live system, especially an older image, when you update/upgrade with pacman you may get 0.5-1GB of upgrades.
7 I may misunderstand your comment, maybe you mean if you change things in live why don't those changes go to the installation?? If you change things as user all changes should be contained with ~/ /home/oblive When the installation is done, and the installed system is mounted in /mnt (for example) cp -Rf /home/oblive/* /mnt/home/newusername/
But don't do this for system changes in /etc ... if you have changed something in /etc copy the specific configuration file if you know what you are doing.
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