Live boot bazzite

Hi! I found a way to live boot bazzite (boot bazzite for example from USB or PXE without actually installing it).

It uses the dracut-live modules to boot from an squashfs image build using podman export bazzite|sqfstar squashfs.img. Dracut live uses overlayfs and tmpfs.

Is anyone interested in this?

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For the love of Torvalds, please do it. But do it so that it works on any Ublue distro. I want to live boot Aurora on my work laptop.

Did you ever follow up?

Atleast Aurora and Bluefin both have LiveCD images by default for like few weeks.

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I tried to get it working, I got it to boot but I had trouble starting wayland/sddm (it only started after lots of restarts) and I sort of gave up.

I now see there are initiatives from others, I might someday try to build another live boot iso.

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