I trod a similar path a couple of years ago at our old stomping grounds when Member there rp88 was a little coy about going a full install with Linux, and so I created on an 8GB usb stick a full install of Linux Mint 17.3 'Rosa' Cinnamon with persistence. You have the germ of an idea and I hope it is not contagious, but I've had my flu vaccination so hopefully I am immune. There are some things one just cannot do in windows, that can be done in Linuxįurther thoughts.would it boot ?.problems there ? I would only need to use this for approx 3 weeks. Anything I 'add' would be saved by virtue of the 'preserve files across reboots' thingie. My idea here is to take that thumb drive with me and plug it into a windows laptop and use my Linux wherever I may be. run updates.then restore a Clonezilla image to it ? If i use a 64Gb usb /thumb drive, and install a clean copy of LM 18.3 to it.using unetbootin.and make an allowance in unetbootin to 'preserve files across reboots'.allow Updates to run.and then "restore" one of the 'Timeshift' snapshots on top of that.? It can also create a usbdata partition with the NTFS file system for exchange of data with computers running Windows.I am playing with this idea, and need confirmation that it will indeed work It creates several partitions, including a casper-rw partition with the ext4 file system for persistence. Mkusb is a tool that can create a persistent live drive and use the whole drive. You can also consider upgrading to a fast USB 3 pendrive (or even a USB SSD). Instead, you can make a fresh installation of a persistent live system into your USB drive. So, there is no system-specific 'custom' file in your live Ubuntu USB drive and therefore, no need to convert it. An exception would be if Ubuntu was extracted from the iso file into a file system (for example: FAT32), and in that case you might have some files saved there, and they should be copied to some other drive or to a location in the internet cloud. If you have a live (live-only) Ubuntu USB drive, there should be nothing saved in it. Others like Startup Disk Creator, dd and Etcher create ISO9660 based USB and are difficult to make persistent. Nowadays some Live Ubuntu apps will create Live Persistent USB's, Rufus, Ventoy, mkusb and Universal. It's also possible to turn a Live USB into a Full-Install USB which has some advantages, except it won't install Ubuntu: Can Ubuntu be installed to the pendrive it was booted from? Shut down and reboot the persistent drive. In Ubuntu 20.04 and later add the word persistent one space after file=/cdrom/preseed/ed in grub.cfg. boot/grub/grub.cfg, (for UEFI boot persistence). syslinux.cfg, (for BIOS boot persistence UNetbootin) isolinux/txt.cfg, (for BIOS boot persistence Rufus) Move the new casper-rw file from home to the root of the Live Pendrive Īdd a Space and persistent after quiet splash - in the following files, (pre-20.04): (where count=512 is the persistence size in megabytes, with a max of 4GB). Sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=casper-rw bs=1M count=512 Type a Space and toram after quiet splash -, and press Enter. Press Shift when booting press Esc from Language press F6 press Esc Many people prefer a Persistent Pendrive that will save changes Ĭreate a Live Pendrive using Rufus or similar īoot the pendrive toram to make the drive editable: Changing Live Pendrive to Persistent Pendrive
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