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Re:Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your ... by RunningDroid on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:59AM (#22167934)
One way is to burn a CD/DVD live image that has your configs added and configure it to mount a mergefs(iirc) on top of the read-only /home so all writes go to /tmp/merge.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your ... by hanniabu on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:21AM (#22168351)
But past that, I don't see how you can do anything since installing programs would require storage.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your ... by WrtCdEvrydy on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:11AM (#22170679)
Most live linux has support for saving stuff to the flash drive. It runs slowly but works.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your ... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:32AM (#22168402)
Just mount a drive over ssh?
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