Using Persistent Live System as Poor Man's System

I have a weird setup of my work station. I am currently using a system with damaged SATA boards, so I search for a way to use a diskless work station. It's not entirely diskless, since I'm now using a flashdrive with live Debian.

If you are interested, here is the link for the base configuration of my live system.

ZeroExistence/debian-live-workstation

Building

The image will be built by using container. Use the Dockerfile to generate a container for live build. Buildah is used in creating the container image.

buildah bud -f Dockerfile -t debian-live .

Run the container using podman. The container needs privilaged access to the host system. You also need to use persistent storage for the image file, with exec,dev flags.

podman run -ti --privileged --name debian-live -v vdebian:/app:exec,dev debian-live

Go to /app directory. Clone this repository, and go inside the repository's directory.

cd /app;
git clone https://github.com/ZeroExistence/debian-live-workstation.git;
cd debian-live-workstation;

Run the live build command.

lb build