Re,
010/10/17 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b@googlemail.com>
2010/10/17 Olivier Blin <mageia@blino.org>:
> It depends if mageia.org wants live USB (with persistent storage) to be
> part of the official releases available "for free"
It's easily done from an existing system. We did that for Mandriva
2010.1 and published a howto as well, so users who can read can do it

do not hesitate to  publish URL, it's easier than searching for it :-)
could have been added to http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/draklive too as alternative or enhancements :)

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Ben'. aka baud123