[GTALUG] looking for a general purpose boot media to keep in case of distasters

[James Knott]

On 2023-09-20 13:50, bitmap wrote:
> IME the bootable linux systems are typically read only. Sure you can 
> install anything transiently. Once you connect to the internet, 
> configure the repos, add keys, update the package lists, possibly run 
> an update of the whole system, and idiosyncratic troubleshooting per 
> distro/release/platform. Then you can install something, probably. 
> But, if you reboot, it is all gone and you have to do it all over 
> again. And when it comes to repairing the system there is a lot of 
> rebooting.
>
> I might try it if you are saying the open suse behaves in a different 
> way than the others, but are you?

This one does what you want.  I just installed Wireshark on it and it 
survives a reboot.

https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/iso/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-KDE-Live-x86_64-Snapshot20230920-Media.iso.mirrorlist