Hi Morgano.
I would recommend to remove the steps/chapters/hints regarding MGA6 and MGA7. They are EOL and unsupported. If you don't have time for it, give me a shout and i will clean up this site from it (only if you want).
Regards sturmvogel
2022-04-28 19:43 CET:
Hi
It is a good thought and I was pondering a bit about it. I decided to keep it as sometimes one would like to use elder systems, and Live mode is then a safer way then a regular install. As they are already there, why not keep?
I will be going trough the four new pages I launched for link fixing and updating, then post on QA and doc they are ready for further scrutiny :)
I see you are already at it, tanks, but you can hold of a day until I feel I am finished myself :)
Best Regards /Morgan
morgano (talk) 23:23, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
Done.
Next, I will be linking to and from them with other wiki pages.
encrypted live persistent versus simply installing
Hello,
iso-dumper is a very good tool to create an encrypted persisten liveUSB.
It should be noted that because of the nature of USB flash drives: easily lost or left somewhere it is a very good idea to encrypt just in case your USB is lost or stolen. Otherwise, on an un-encrypted LiveUSB it is quite trivial to gain root access and then to find interesting user logins and all their associated credentials: for example: gmail login.
It is safer to encrypt and protect your digital identity.
Another issue I found with using a persistent (encrypted or not) LiveUSB is the nature of updates which are done as deltas to the ReadOnly copies of files from the Live ISO image.
This means that the disk space needed to accomodate both the original ReadOnly ISO files and the ReadWrite deltas for all updates is used up space very quickly. It tends towards halving the space you may think you have.
For this reason, I tried installing a USB just as if it was a disk drive using the Classic Install ISO. The effect of this is to not have both RO copies from the LiveISO plus the RW deltas for all the system updates which means having more usable space on the USB.
Classic Install on a USB works very well and you can maximise the limited space on your USB flashdrive.
Cordialement Kind Regards Paul [tree|wiki|code|news]gazer
morgano (talk) 07:10, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Right, I now added a line encouraging encryption due to security. Without encryption you need not even gain root access, just plug the stick it into another system and read the persistence partition...
Yes if you want to keep size down, a normal install directly to the USB stick is better. I link to that under the header [[Persistent_live_systems#Alternative_methods|Alternative_methods] - as well as making ones own updated and special Live ISO.
One big advantage with Live is that if the updates or settings foul up (been there), (i.e by glitchy connector) you can boot without the persistence.
