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ktechmidas

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Registered: 2017-10-07

Posts: 4

Best way to use live environment?

If I boot from a CD (I know, old school) it's write protected so I cannot use pacman to get packages. What's the best way around this? Do pacstrap to a tmpfs and use that as my live environment or try to get pacman to install into a tmpfs that's already configured?

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Best way to use live environment?

If you want more packages pre-installed on the CD then use archiso to create a custom version.

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,229

Re: Best way to use live environment?

Downloading the packages will hardly be your goal, is it? (Also that's easy by redirecting the package cache or mount /var/cache as tmpfs)

You're probably looking for https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Overlay_filesystem

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Best way to use live environment?

... so I cannot use pacman to get packages

What packages do you need to get?  The installation iso is for just that: installation.  Install to the target media then go from there.  Even if the iso was on a USB you'd not have persistent storage and could not install packages (other than in ram).

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essir

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Registered: 2017-11-09

Posts: 3

Re: Best way to use live environment?

Best way is to use live USB or live SD card

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Best way to use live environment?

Best way is to use live USB or live SD card

Which will have no affect on the issue the OP is talking about at all.