[TriLUG] live ubuntu [ Was Re: booting an external disk with grub 0.97 ]

John Mitchell via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Wed Apr 22 12:48:23 EDT 2015


Try unetbootin:

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Also allows you to store stuff on the memory stick.

john mitchell

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Alan Porter wrote:
>
>  my wifi settings aren't saved between runs. How do I make them permanent?
>>>
>>
>> When you create your USB stick, there is an option to create a persistent
>> file storage area.
>>
>
> hmm. I didn't create a USB stick. I just dd'ed the iso to the USB stick. I
> couldn't find instructions to create a USB stick. Where are they, or what
> do I do?
>
>  This is the "casper-rw" filesystem that is overlaid on top of your
>> read-only cramfs in a "union-fs" way.
>>
>
> yes I know about it, although I don't understand how it works.
>
>  Anything you save to the filesystem will be stored in this casper-rw
>> file. It's an ext3 filesystem image on your memory stick.
>>
>
> well this was going to be my next question, where do I store stuff?
>
> Joe
>
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