#1 2016-11-06 18:01:38

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[SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

I am trying to create a persistent live Bunsenlabs USB stick following this method. The only things I did differently are,

Step 3: I added bs=4M; sync to the dd command
Step 8: I formated using ext4 format

However, when I am booting it and entering live persistent in the boot prompt (step 10), I am getting the following error:

boot:live persistent
Loading live... failed: No  such file or directory

I rebooted it live (non persistent) and noticed that I can mount the live-rw partition, however can't create a folder, file or paste a file. The wifi passwords I saved, the add-ons installed on Firefox are all gone in the next boot up.

Any help?

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

I am trying to create a persistent live Bunsenlabs USB stick following this method.

That guide is for Debian 6, BL is based on Debian 8 and that method no longer works (as you have found).

Try https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 6974#p6974 instead

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

I just read that sometime back.. and was planning to try it out... Thank you Will update on both posts, if there are any errors.

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

Faced an error: details here -> https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 901#p39901

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

Facing some errors... any help there?

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 901#p39901

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

Facing some errors... any help there?

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 901#p39901

You have a broken link here.

PS It is considered poor forum etiquette to bump a thread by repeating yourself. Help will either be forthcoming, or it won't, and considering that you have only waited a few hours, it sounds very impatient.

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

Here it is.. sorry about the previous link.

Error explained here

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

Sorry to butt in, guys - I may be missing the point... but wouldn't it be simpler to just install the distro to a memory stick - which would then become a "persistent USB stick"?

No big drama and zero issues afterwards...

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

Sorry to butt in, guys - I may be missing the point... but wouldn't it be simpler to just install the distro to a memory stick - which would then become a "persistent USB stick"?

No big drama and zero issues afterwards...

Which was what I asked.. having done so before, there must be some reason so many are trying to do things this more difficult way, but blessed if I can figure out what that reason is.

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

^ & ^^ unless a USB3 stick is used then heavy I/O operations can be painfully slow, I think that is the general reason people prefer persistent live installations.

Kali Linux recommend running their system live with persistence:

http://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-l … sb-install

http://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-l … ersistence

The instructions in the second link should work for any Debian-based distribution.

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

Hey Justin,

One thing you may try is using VirtualBox. I was able to expose a USB hard drive to VirtualBox and run through the installation process treating that USB drive as the target hard drive. The added benefit is that while you're in the virtualized environment, you can quickly install anything else needed by your computer's hardware before rebooting.

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

It's quite heavy to install a full fledged linux distro on to a USB 2.0 drive. But I am willing to take the shot and I took.

During the final steps of installation, I was asked whether to install the grub bootloader to the first hard disk and I choose not to. Instead I install it on to the USB stick itself. Hope I did it right, because I will be using the stick on various computers and I don't want my current system to show a bootloader when I am not using it.

However, on the first run,  a with the following,

MBR 1FA:

No processes after this. I waited for few minutes to see if it loads but in vain.

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

Facing some errors... any help there?

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 901#p39901

You have a broken link here.

PS It is considered poor forum etiquette to bump a thread by repeating yourself. Help will either be forthcoming, or it won't, and considering that you have only waited a few hours, it sounds very impatient.

Sorry about that, suggestion well accepted .

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

Guys, it's 2016... should we not leave the USB 2.0 arguments back in the last century?

Sandisk Extreme 32GB costs a mere $20. A fully installed BL distro (even booted from a USB 2.0 port) performs just fine.

Installed on three sticks so far, tried and tested on quite a few laptops...

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

mradovan, right I agree, but I think the issue would be that a lot of B.L users and even more linux users as a whole I believe, use older hardware. So many laptops and desktops that they'll have to plug the usb into may be of the older 2.0 architecture.

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

justin_matthew I highly recommend trying to use VirtualBox to do this. It'll save you a lot of headaches. I've done this numerous times. Use VirtualBox, point to the mounted USB drive without creating a virtual disk, and use that as your target installation media.

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

justin_matthew I highly recommend trying to use VirtualBox to do this. It'll save you a lot of headaches. I've done this numerous times. Use VirtualBox, point to the mounted USB drive without creating a virtual disk, and use that as your target installation media.

I'll try that and see...

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

Guys, it's 2016... should we not leave the USB 2.0 arguments back in the last century?

Sandisk Extreme 32GB costs a mere $20. A fully installed BL distro (even booted from a USB 2.0 port) performs just fine.

Installed on three sticks so far, tried and tested on quite a few laptops...

USB 3 or 2, I'll still get this error right?

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

this error

Please describe the installation process in full and also include the full, exact command used to transfer the ISO image to the USB stick.

Also: http://askubuntu.com/questions/794064/l … on-mbr-1fa

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Re: [SOLVED] Creating a persistent live USB stick

I booted into BL live stick (normal persistence created with dd command) and then went ahead with the installation.

In the partition section, I choose my second USB stick as the installation target. I used the whole stick without any partition.

The installation went ahead and during the final set up, it usually asks about installing the grub loader into the first hard disk. FOr installation on a hard disk, you hit the continue button, but since I am installing it in the hdd, I choose to manually install the grub loader and then in the following screen, choose my target USB stick to install the grub loader.

This error mentioned happens only when I boot into the USB stick where I installed the distro. If I boot directly to the HDD (Win 7) or to another live system, I don't see any issues.

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