Davidsr
Hi
First let me tell you I am glad I am not the only Dinosaur on the forum, I am 67 and also retired with some time on my hand
Back to business;
1- As you discovered, mylivecd by default puts the iso in roots home, when you search as a user roots home is not included
2- Linux needs at least 1 user home to work, be it root; so in the future, do not exclude your /home directory; if you want, you can exclude some sub directories like /home/davidsr/documents or /home/davidsr/movies ..etc
3- I would also suggest that in the future you make mylivecd do the work in your home directory; you can use something like this:
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mylivecd --verbose --debug --noclean --tmp /home/davidsr/Tmp --workdir /home/davidsr/Work /home/davidsr/Img/My_Img.iso --gzip
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You will need to create the /Tmp /Work /Img directories beforehand
This way you will end up with the iso in the /Img directory
You will also have livecd.sqfs in the /Work/Livecd/ directory; this is useful if you want to boot from USB device, it is also useful if the iso creation fails because it will tell you the size of your compressed system and whether it exceeds the 4GB limit for creating the iso
4- About compression, gzip is much faster than lzma or xz but the resulting image can be up to 20% larger, if you are not constrained by size, use gzip
Hope this is usefull
Cheers
