On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:06:12 -0500, wireless@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

> > Do you mean isohybrid? That converts an ISO image to make it suitable
> > for copying to a USB drive with dd and booting it as if it were a CD.
> > it's not suitable for your needs as it uses the whole drive as an
> > ISO9660 filesystem, leaving nowhere to save your files.  
> 
> Yep, that's it. Theoretical question: If one build this image, why
> can't you include a file that is the size of the remaining free space
> before creating the image?  It afterwards use that file space to
> install additional wares?

Because the process creates a read-only filesystem on the whole drive.
What you suggest is surely possible, but far more work than the method
the Wiki describes.


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