I apologize for having been so long to provide an answer, but things have been quite hectic for the past weeks, and this part of the project was only one of the minor things I had to do.<br><br>Anyway, I ended up with a USB-key on which I've created 2 partitions with Gparted:<br>
- one fat32 of about 2Gio for the Live-Fedora system<br> - the remaining part formatted in ext4, being available for data.<br><br>The .iso Live system image is created on the key with the following command:<br># livecd-iso-to-disk --home-size-mb 64 <name-of-your-iso-file-system> <destination-unmounted-device><br>
This setting provides 64Mb of persistent /home for the liveuser, that allows to keep all the settings and customization (for Gnome, Digikam, etc.) from one session to the other.<br><br>The first time I boot from the key, I launch Digikam and set up the database and first collection on the 'data' partition of the USB-key; the key is then ready tgo be used by an 'end-user'.<br>
<br>This seems to work pretty well, but hasn't been used in production yet.<br>And keep in mind this USB-based Digikam will be used only for little local collections for quite a short time, as they will be centralized periodically onto a central database on disk.<br>
My purpose here was to provide 10 to 15 team members scattered 'on the field' with a system ready to use so they can upload their own pictures and do some tagging before transferring their data to the team manager every couple of weeks.<br>
<br>This will be used in the 'real life' pretty soon. I'll let you know if I have to change or adapt something.<br><br>Marie-Noëlle<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/23 David Vincent-Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidvincentjones@gmail.com">davidvincentjones@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Marie-Noëlle;<br>
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I think that several dk users would be interested in your final setup.<br>
Being able to lure photographers into the Linux world through this very<br>
fine bait all neatly packaged on a USB-key would be a great asset.<br>
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Please keep the forum informed of your set-up and results.<br>
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David<br>
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