Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
sult using an LVM snapshot. > There's still some charm to Santiago's approach: the device is (nearly?) > read-only after install. I'm not sure I see the difference: the LVM snapshot can also be tagged as read-only. In both cases (LVM snapshot or overlayfs) the overall system is not rea

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-19 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:24:27PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I wanted to do something exactly like that some months ago. > > What I ended up doing is using a normal Debian installation > > with an overlay file system mounted over the root. > > FWIW, you can do simpler and just use a normal

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I wanted to do something exactly like that some months ago. > What I ended up doing is using a normal Debian installation > with an overlay file system mounted over the root. FWIW, you can do simpler and just use a normal Debian install on a USB key. That saves the trouble of the overlay

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-18 Thread Anssi Saari
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z writes: > I wanted to do something exactly like that some months ago. > What I ended up doing is using a normal Debian installation > with an overlay file system mounted over the root. > It is too tricky to get the live images working with persistence. Thanks, bu

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-18 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
El mié, 18 ago 2021 a las 8:38, Anssi Saari () escribió: > > > I've tried a couple of ways to get a USB stick to boot (bios not efi) > with persistence from debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-kde+nonfree.iso. Just > stuffing that to the stick produces a working stick, just no > persisten

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-18 Thread Anssi Saari
d the bundled syslinux MBR in the stick MBR and managed to boot. So, looks like Debian Live with persistence really likes to mount and/or fsck any partitions it finds. Crazy. GRML also worked, much the same as Debian with persistence. Video card still refuses to work. Oh well, no rush to upgrade to Bullseye.

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
to-create-a-debian-live-usb-with-persistence look somewhat plausible. "Debian live with persistence." by F.Hauri is quite an interesting hack, whereas "Using mkusb (BIOS/UEFI)" by sudodus is a main use case of "mkusb", of which sudodus is the developer. He's Ubuntu user a

Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-18 Thread Anssi Saari
I've tried a couple of ways to get a USB stick to boot (bios not efi) with persistence from debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-kde+nonfree.iso. Just stuffing that to the stick produces a working stick, just no persistence. The sparse instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/LiveUsbPersistence

Debian Live USB Persistence

2015-11-18 Thread Tyler Nijmeh
Hello! I'm Tyler. I desperately need help setting up full persistence on my 8 Gigabyte flash drive. I already know how to create a partition. I have made one called "persistence" as an ext4. It is set at Primary, as well as the boot partition. I then proceeded to your manual at 7.5 P

Re: Persistence

2015-11-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:51:37 -0500 Matilda Fins <shishcob...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Matilda, Cc'ing, as it seems you may not be subscribed to list. >Is there a way to create a Debian live usb flash drive with >persistence? If so, how? At least two replies exist in the thread whe

Re: Persistence

2015-11-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 11 November 2015 15:51:37 Matilda Fins wrote: > Is there a way to create a Debian live usb flash drive with persistence? If > so, how? Are you subscribed? You have had replies which you seem not to have seen. Lisi

Re: Persistence

2015-11-11 Thread Michael Fothergill
cob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way to create a Debian live usb flash drive with persistence? > If so, how? > -- Climostat Ltd Rm 5169 The Heath Business & Technical Park The Heath Runcorn Cheshire WA7 4QX Tel. 01 928 515 015

Persistence

2015-11-11 Thread Matilda Fins
Is there a way to create a Debian live usb flash drive with persistence? If so, how?

Re: Persistence

2015-11-11 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Yes, install the package live-build and read the documentation. The mailing-list debian-live can help you. -- Gerard ___ *** * Created with "mutt 1.5.23" * * under Debian Linux JESSIE version 8.1 * *

Persistence

2015-11-10 Thread Matilda Fins
Is there a way to create a Debian live usb flash drive with persistence? If so, how?

Re: Persistence

2015-11-10 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Matilda Fins <shishcob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way to create a Debian live usb flash drive with persistence? > If so, how? > The following article illustrates this Linux Community Blogs <https://www.linux.com/community/blogs/133-ge

Re: Persistence with apt-get

2015-10-05 Thread EenyMeenyMinyMoa
Hi, Richard. Thank you for your nice tip! > I think I would have tried for full persistence in your example with only one > line in the persistence.conf file of something like: > > echo "/ union" > /media/usb0/persistence.conf By only this single line in persistenc

Re: No Clipboard Persistence even with clipboard managers

2015-04-26 Thread Teresa e Junior
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 14:16:21 -0300, Teresa e Junior wrote: I have always used clipboard managers in Linux, but for more than one year already I have noticed that clipboard persistence is lost on the desktop some hours after booting (the ability to paste after closing the source application, see

No Clipboard Persistence even with clipboard managers

2015-04-25 Thread Teresa e Junior
I have always used clipboard managers in Linux, but for more than one year already I have noticed that clipboard persistence is lost on the desktop some hours after booting (the ability to paste after closing the source application, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClipboardPersistence). I copy

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-16 Thread Christer Oldhoff
Hi Michael, On 2013-04-15 15:26, Michael Heerdegen wrote: [...] Thanks for the hints, it now works! I labeled the partition `persistence', but to get it work, I also had to put a persistence.conf file on it. [...] Many thanks, Michael. I´m glad I could help. You were apparently

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Apr 2013 at 21:29:22 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Brian wrote: That cannot happen. Updating the system might alter grub.cfg but GRUB itself is not installed or reinstalled to, for example, the MBR of any disk. This is not entirely correct.

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Brian wrote: On Mon 15 Apr 2013 at 21:29:22 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Brian wrote: That cannot happen. Updating the system might alter grub.cfg but GRUB itself is not installed or reinstalled to, for example, the MBR of any

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Heerdegen
Hi Rob, On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: Hi, hope this is the right forum for my question. I wanted to use Debian live (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build) on a 468 Laptop installed on a flash drive with full persistence. I used

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Heerdegen
Hi Christer, First of all, I have another architecture (amd64) and I never got persistence to work with stable (Squeeze). But it works really well with testing (Wheezy) using the regular iso-hybrid .iso image. There is a link to a very helpful instruction in my previous mail. Note

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-15 Thread Brian
) on a 468 Laptop installed on a flash drive with full persistence. I used to use Debian Live with persistence, but lately I've changed to a much easier method. Now I just do a normal Debian install but install it to a USB stick instead of a hard drive. Works fine. I make some tweaks

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Heerdegen
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: When I upgrade the system after some time has passed - it might happen that grub is installed to the hdd and the notebook won't start anymore. So I'll try to get live work first. That cannot happen. Updating the system might alter grub.cfg but GRUB

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Brian wrote: That cannot happen. Updating the system might alter grub.cfg but GRUB itself is not installed or reinstalled to, for example, the MBR of any disk. This is not entirely correct. You need to put all grub* packages on hold to make sure it won't ever update the

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-14 Thread Arun Khan
on a flash drive with full persistence. I used to use Debian Live with persistence, but lately I've changed to a much easier method. Now I just do a normal Debian install but install it to a USB stick instead of a hard drive. Works fine. I make some tweaks to improve performance

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-14 Thread Christer Oldhoff
Hi Michael, On 2013-04-13 20:50, Michael Heerdegen wrote: Hi, hope this is the right forum for my question. I wanted to use Debian live (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build) on a 468 Laptop installed on a flash drive with full persistence. [...] Next, I downloaded testing

How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-13 Thread Michael Heerdegen
Hi, hope this is the right forum for my question. I wanted to use Debian live (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build) on a 468 Laptop installed on a flash drive with full persistence. I followed the recipe given here: https://www.linux.com/community/blogs/133-general-linux/420179

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: Hi, hope this is the right forum for my question. I wanted to use Debian live (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build) on a 468 Laptop installed on a flash drive with full persistence. I used to use Debian Live

Re: Reg persistence usb portability

2010-09-14 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:52:41 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: I created one persistence usb through http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ . Then add some packges into that. By packages you mean programs or driver/modules? Can the created persistence usb portable through different hardware? If no then what

Re: Reg persistence usb portability

2010-09-14 Thread Kousik Maiti
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:52:41 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: I created one persistence usb through http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ . Then add some packges into that. By packages you mean programs or driver/modules? Packages

Re: Reg persistence usb portability

2010-09-14 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:15:14 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: I think you can have some problems with drivers to get all detected devices working properly (mostly peripherals) in the LiveUSB (not in virtual machine mode), but as long as you can get

Re: Reg persistence usb portability

2010-09-14 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:51:44 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: You'll have to get further info. It can be a problem for setting the monitor/vga correctly. Any error on logs (/var/log/Xorg.0.log or ~/.xsession-errors? I can't find errors in Xorg

Re: Reg persistence usb portability

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Kousik Maiti kousiks...@gmail.com wrote: Hi lists, I created one persistence usb through http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ . Not sure of the above but if you are using a Debian Live image then read on. Then add some packges into that. Can

Reg persistence usb portability

2010-09-13 Thread Kousik Maiti
Hi lists, I created one persistence usb through http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ . Then add some packges into that. Can the created persistence usb portable through different hardware? If no then what modifications required to make it portable through different hardware? Thanks in advanced

Re: Problem with Raid Array persistence across reboots.

2006-08-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 26 August 2006 06:40, Alan Chandler wrote: ... - I found the guidance at http://www.planamente.ch/emidio/pages/linux_howto_root_lvm_raid.php to be very helpful Indeed, in there it says you need to do cd /etc/mdadm echo 'DEVICE /dev/hd*[0-9] /dev/sd*[0-9]' mdadm.conf

Problem with Raid Array persistence across reboots.

2006-08-25 Thread Chandler, Alan
[Apologies if this has already been sent. My home computer systems seems to be falling around my ears as I have changed all the disks around, and I desperately need to ask the question below and get an answer, so I can rebuild my desktop system, and thus release some disks acting as backup on my

Re: Problem with Raid Array persistence across reboots.

2006-08-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/08/06 13:13), Chandler, Alan wrote: I created a raid array with mdadm, thus mdadm --create=/dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sd[ab]4 and then turned /dev/md0 into a LVM physical volume, volume group and some logical volumes. This worked great until I rebooted, at which

Re: Problem with Raid Array persistence across reboots.

2006-08-25 Thread Scott Reese
Chandler, Alan wrote: I created a raid array with mdadm, thus mdadm --create=/dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sd[ab]4 and then turned /dev/md0 into a LVM physical volume, volume group and some logical volumes. This worked great until I rebooted, at which point the start-up

Re: Problem with Raid Array persistence across reboots.

2006-08-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Chandler, Alan wrote: [Apologies if this has already been sent. My home computer systems seems to be falling around my ears as I have changed all the disks around, and I desperately need to ask the question below and get an answer, so I can rebuild my desktop system, and thus release some disks

Re: Problem with Raid Array persistence across reboots.

2006-08-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
I recently set up a Sarge box, with raid and LVM. It took a while, and there where a bunch of nits that had to be worked through, but now it's been running stably for a month or so, and everthing comes back back after reboots. So, in case it helps: - I found the guidance at

RE: Problem with Raid Array persistence across reboots.

2006-08-25 Thread Chandler, Alan
-Original Message- From: Damon L. Chesser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 August 2006 14:56 To: Chandler, Alan Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem with Raid Array persistence across reboots. Chandler, Alan wrote: [Apologies if this has already been sent. My home

Re: Problem with Raid Array persistence across reboots.

2006-08-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Chandler, Alan wrote: -Original Message- From: Damon L. Chesser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 August 2006 14:56 To: Chandler, Alan Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem with Raid Array persistence across reboots. Chandler, Alan wrote: [Apologies if this has

Re: Problem with Raid Array persistence across reboots.

2006-08-25 Thread Alan Chandler
[Apologies this doesn't thread properly, but I didn't get the messages from the list covering the time my mail server was down - the reason was I had forgotten to allocate swap space in my new configuration - so I have had to reply to the message by copy and pasting from an archive] On

Fwd: Devfs /dev permission persistence

2002-06-10 Thread Russell Coker
: Devfs /dev permission persistence Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:53:06 -0400 From: Luo, Ling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] According to the devfs.readme, I disabled the devfs automount at boot time to enable dev file permission persistence to work( with /dev-state etc, etc). However doing