So, I just made a live USB of Slitaz for the first time and I absolutely love how fast it runs on my 10 year old laptop that would otherwise be collecting dust. However, my hard drive is failing, so installing to the computer is not an option. My question is if there is any way to create a persistent USB that will save any changes I make to the system until the next session. Please keep in mind that i have virtually no knowledge of Slitaz or Linux in general. Alternatively, I am wondering if there is any way that I could boot my live USB, make any changes to the system that i want such as installing applications, setting the wallpaper, etc, and then make a new .iso file of the system that I can boot fresh each time. Any suggestions would be great.
How can I create a persistent USB?
(2 posts) (2 voices)- Started 11 years ago by Anonymous
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offlineUnregisteredPosted 11 years ago # -
I asked the same question in one of my threads, and christophe wrote the following:
"I am speaking from memory (and recopied a former post of mine alos) so I hope there are no mistakes left
The short story :
- Get a new, fresh, empty ramkey
- Make it ready to boot slitaz:
# fdisk -l<= Indentify flash drive install target
# tazusb format /dev/sdXX<= Format install target
-Install slitaz to flash drive
# tazusb gen-liveusb /dev/sdXX
or
Applications/System Tools/Create a LiveUSB
- Reboot from the ramkey, slitaz boots to RAM and auto-mounts the flash drive to /home
- Do changes to your system if you wish (eg update the system, install firefox)
- Write the changes to the key for future reboots and edit boot menu before shutting down:
# tazusb writefs gzip
- Edit boot menu:
# leafpad /home/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
Add the following lines below the lines with "# labels"
LABEL Slitaz_on_USB
MENU LABEL SliTaz Custom on USB
KERNEL /boot/bzImage
append initrd=/boot/rootfs.gz rw root=/dev/null vga=normal autologin home=[copy the block id label from the other boot lines]
- Reboot from your key and choose the option from boot menu "SliTaz Custom on USB"(This is where I might be wrong from memory, I think i have struggled to reboot from saved system until I added the entry in extlinux.conf)
Hope this helps."
I honestly have't tried it myself yet (because i dont have my USB right now), but it seems correct to me.
Hope this helps!
Posted 11 years ago #
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