Frederick Grose

These issues have been addressed in PR #217.

A hand made variation is available today. Using a kernel command line argument, an overlay file on a second partition with an ext4 file system can be configured. See https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html#_booting_live_images...

Pull Request #176 updates livecd-iso-to-disk --format to default to multiple partitions.

--releasefile is processed by the `_brand()` routine in `editliveos`. If a file like `/etc/fedora-release`, `/etc/generic-release`, `/etc/issue`, or the --releasefile `PATH` exists in the image, then it is prepended with a...

The templated example given above was the content of `/etc/fedora-release` after running `editliveos`. The second line in the file was the original content. The edited line is also used in...

You may want to look at `/etc/os-release`. It contains a newer collection of operating system metadata. https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/os-release

This is a feature I would use a lot in the ways suggested above.

@mahdiaqallal See also https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/blob/9cc7ceec1e9b4028d1a72bf51f9ea488d7ca11ac/man/dracut.usage.asc#keyboard-settings You could add `rd.vconsole.font=eurlatgr rd.vconsole.keymap=fr-oss rd.locale.LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8` to your kernel command line.

This will also clean up debug xtrace logs.

The 2 problems you identified at the top are fixed in an update of Fedora 39 such as in the live-respin, https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/F39-WORK-x86_64-LIVE-20240401.iso Those problems are not related to the `rd.live.overlay.overlayfs`...