Am 29.04.2015 um 10:27 schrieb Nio Wiklund: > Den 2015-04-29 10:07, Leszek Lesner skrev: >> Hi Nio, >> >> did you only tried booting the default boot entry that unetbootin creates ? >> This sometimes is messed up and choosing the correct boot entry solves >> this. >> >> A method that always worked for me is dd'ing the ISO image to the USB >> pendrive. >> So the command >> sudo dd if=/path/to/lubuntu.iso >> of=/dev/<your_sdX_device_that_is_the_usb_pendrive> >> copies everything to the usb pendrive. >> Normally it should be less then 1 GB so that even on a 4 GB pendrive you >> have the option to create a at least 2.5 GB big ext4/ext3/ext2/whatever >> linux filesystem with casper-rw label. (<---this is important for the >> casper persisentcy option to recognize this partition as persistent >> partition) >> On boot just add the >> persistent >> bootoption to the default boot option by pressing TAB and adding it to >> the commandline. >> This should get you going. A persistent USB live system. >> >> These steps are of course for advanced users. I did not test the normal >> unetbootin ot startup disk creator method yet. Maybe there is some bug >> in both of them somewhere. >> >> Greetings >> Leszek >> > Hi Leszek, > > I know of the dd method. I made mkusb to wrap security around that > method. And I know that it works :-D > > But I have not managed to use a casper-rw partition for persistence on > the same drive as a dd-cloned system. > > *Please tell me the details if you know how to make that work* > > (I can easily make it work with a casper-rw partition in another drive.) > > ... Yeah you are right. Casper-rw isn't recognized when on the same pendrive as the dd'ed image basically is a iso9960 format and it hides the other partitions on the same drive.
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