LyXmOg - The LiveCD(/DVD/USB) Transmogrifier

With the VirOS toolsuite's "lixmog" program, you can easily modify pre-existing linux LiveCDs with prepackaged "traits". The canonical example is to 'patch' the standard Fedora-8 "Werewolf" i686 LiveCD iso image, with my LiveUSB-Persistence patch. Such a patched F8 LiveCD will have a new zyx-liveiso-to-disk command, which like the stock liveiso-to-disk command, will install the live .iso image onto a new F8-LiveUSB stick/drive. But unlike the stock command, now changes you make during live login sessions, will persist across reboots, *and even from host(computer) to different host*. In essence, your workstation on a usbstick.

To do this, merely boot a Fedora 8 system (e.g. the F8 i686 LiveCD), and run the following commands:

wget http://filteredperception.org/smiley/projects/viros/releases/viros-latest.tgz

wget ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/8/Live/i686/Fedora-8-Live-i686.iso

tar xvzf viros-latest.tgz

cd viros-*

./vsys lixmog --addtrait="f8persistence" --output=./coolnewliveOS.iso ../Fedora-8-Live-i686.iso

Then, to create a persistent LiveUSB:

burn coolnewliveOS.iso, boot a system with it

plug in a usbstick

type dmesg to see which device the usbstick is (BE REAL SURE, AND HAVE EVERYTHING IMPORTANT BACKED UP).

If the stick is mounted as a vfat device from /dev/sdb1, then you would run:

zyx-livecd-iso-to-disk /dev/sdb1

After which, you would be done, and could boot the new LiveUSB... In theory, please give me success and failure reports, as this is seriously alpha software.