Argh, SystemRescueCD ditched their Gentoo base for Arch linux and regressed on some things I really liked in the process, like the FAT32-based USB install and the default zsh with a nice config :(
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Now it's using the archiso stuff, which is nice in that you can just dd it to a USB drive, but it's not FAT32 any more so it's not writable and you can't resize it. For a rescue system I like being able to use the rest of my 32GB USB drive for data.
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It also seems to have ballooned in size, from ~580MB to ~910MB. Wonder what the bloat is.
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Maybe it's time for a name change
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You can have a backing store for customizations... but you need to change the bootloader config... but it's an ISO so you can't... and the alternate FAT32 installation method is UEFI-only... something wasn't well thought out here. http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/manual/Creating_a_backing_store/ …
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Replying to @marcan42
It should be fairly easy to swap isolinux with syslinux. Just make sure the FAT32 partition is marked as "active", dd your preferred flavor of syslinux master boot record onto the USB stick's MBR, and run syslinux --install on the FAT32 partition.
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Yeah, I know I can DIY all this (it's basically what the old usb_inst does anyway), I'm just annoyed that they don't have a script for it any more.
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Replying to @marcan42
Write a script by yourself and make a pull request? ;)
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