I have started from scratch yesterday and thanx to your teaching online deleted windows 10 and cold turkey installed linux ubuntu..... i feel like a computer tech!!!! thank you for being an awesome teacher!
Hell yeah thank you for the information man you explained alot of things that Ive been needing to know and you did it in such a simple and to the point type of way. Thanks
Thank you so much for posting this video!!! I i tried for a couple of days to make a persistent ubuntu ssd for windows 10 laptop....always ran into glitches ... But now after seeing this video, i am just going to have a 2nd drive for storing files while using linux installed on the 1st USB drive at the same time!!!
Thank you for this. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't modify storage properly. Installed it on an external HDD, then I found this video. No problem, I was hoping to modify this one as a main build. It's outdated, but I'm hoping to juice it up. I'll be testing a lot of distros though, so I needed to know this part
im really glad you made this, it really helped clear up my confusion. im about to install linux on my usb because linux doesnt agree with my gaming laptop when I install it to the hard drive.
For someone who's created two of the three drives discussed here, it sure would be handy to have Option A, Option B, and Option C (with an option d as a distinct possibility) with instructions. I've created the L, LP, and Linux Mint OS Thumb drives/HDD/SSD's, but there's so much time between executables that the processes are frequently lost. I look forward to my first Linux Mint OS USB and perhaps that should be my next experiment (since the Linux Persistent escaped me in-so-far as functionality is concerned). Thank you so much for the wonderful information! A thousand thumbs up (or is it thumb ups?)!!!
A fully functional OS set up the way you like it that can boot on any pc, doesn't ask passwords etc.and can be installed immediately makes persistent copies WONDERFUL.
Good advice ! Just bought a 64 GB usb 3 pen drive, regular usb male one end, usb C male other end to go to my Galaxy Note 8. Forget about persistence, I'm going to use this as a full linux i stalled drive !
Oh sweet Jesus, I've been trying to do it all wrong for years. I feel so stupid lol. I was afraid if I hit install it would partition/ write over my main drive. I'll try making a Linux USB again. Thanks a bunch
I have a laptop that requires an unusually sized, fairly expensive NVME drive which I don't have. So I was thinking of full-installing a distro on an SD card to use that as my "hard drive." Got lazy and never got around to it; but that's another use case for that.
Immense thank you (!!) for this video, the only video I found about actually installing linux TO usb, not FROM usb. Given how confusing the topic could be, could you please (please please..) leave any info off the top your head about how exactly to perform Full Install (not live or persistance or "install to harddrive from usb") of Debian KDE to a USB stick ? Also, since it's full install, is it possible to use netinstaller for it ? (I was told it could be better for finding drivers for my 2-in-1 laptop). also-also, I was told not to use flashdrives >16gb for live , is this also applicable to Full install ? If no, could I occupy all 128 gbs of the flashdrive ? Also-also-also, could such installation be done on a partition of a USB ? If yes, I could have a few distros on one usb ? In any case, can I access files on such USB from windows ? Please halp, oh rare knowledge keeper !
Last year I picked up a Lattiude 7480 that had a Micro SD slot. I didn't want to mess up my Windows partition because I didn't plant to keep it for a long time. So, I picked up an 8 gb card, tossed it in after burning Mint 18 to the card. I installed the OS but it had been soooo slow and that was odd since it booted from a live key very fast. What I ended up doing was blowing that partition out and using a persistence partition instead like Android. Really, really great stuff.
The reason it ran so slow is your micro SD slot is likely USB 2.0 . To run most of these versions of Linux from removable media , you have to have a 3.0 or it will not be usable .
Hey! Q1.Can I use my internal HDD like installing apps and other files usong Persistent usb?? Q2. Can I make persistent usb from the live session of that usb itself ??
I have Manjaro i3 Linux on an external drive. I was showing my CS teacher something and as I was rotating my laptop to show him, the external drive fell off the desk and detached itself from the USB-A to miniUSB-B cable. Luckily, I reattached the drive, hard shutdown the laptop (as the OS’s shutdown function was broke from the drive fall), and turned it back on, and it still works. Thank God for journaling file systems! (Also, my CS professor is tired of Windows being sluggish on his laptop and is switching to Linux. Any recommendations?)
thanks for the video. This is the deal for me: I want to use Atomic wallet from a pendrive for security; but when I install different distros to the usb, they work very very slow (my computer is kind of old) while ISOS run really fast and efficiently; the problem with distros like puppy is that atomic doesn't work in them; the same goes for isos of most other distros. Manjaro ISO on the other hand, runs atomic perfectly. So if I could put a manjaro ISO in a USB with persistence, that would be a perfect solution for me
can i do both on a same drive ? like my drive x has two partition . I wanna use one partition as live usb and on other partition i actually want to install linux .
I really wanted to try linux so i created a elementary os usb drive... Then my hard-disk crashed.... I booted into elementary os and installed mkusb and created a persistent drive of ubuntu 20.04... There I have a full computer to use until my hard-disk arrives This really saved me because i am running it off a old 8gb with 2 gb as usable persistence usb 2.0 drive the os is pretty usable Then i created a persistent drive of kde neon on a generic usb there i noticed what is the problem with slow boot drives. It was really laggy while the 'live' of kde neon worked just fine... I will try a install on usb sometime later and give you the results
Great I was planning to install Linux mint onto my macOS but they hesitate because my MacBook starts to updating, now I know that there is better opinions then full installation or partition that could be albo risky
Thank you for the video. As you presented, I really want Linux Mint installed to a USB what can accept changes. I must have been spoiled, originally, I ended up buying Knoppix bootable USBs because Knoppix would run on my older desktop and there was an icon on the desktop that easily created another bootable USB that would retain changes. With Linux Mint there seems to be mass confusion in the Facebook groups and several other articles and videos about how to install to a USB so that changes would be retained - calling this persistence. I'm not sure how - probably a combination of mkusb and perhaps GParted, I managed to create a USB with the persistence you mentioned (and seems I may not need or want). Today I tried to create another one and using mkusb it did boot, but not keep changes. I tried the Install Linux Mint icon on the desktop and ended up losing the persistence on my main Linux Mint Boot USB - sigh. I'll look through your videos and see if there is one that describes how to do an install to USB. As a side note, I can see how sometimes I would like to start over with a fresh install and sometimes I would like to make a working backup copy of my USB boot drive as it has evolved over time. I'll start reviewing your other videos - I kept thinking that with Linux Mint it just shouldn't be so hard and seemed weird to have to install other software from the terminal mode to be able to create a functioning USB that keeps changes. Thanks - Dave
There's a prog called Unetbootin that allows the creation of persistent volumes. There's also a terminal one called mkusb from France that's primitive but works nicely. One thing about installing to a removable media is what do you do about swapping?
Sorry, how long is the lifespan of a usb stick with a full Linux installation? I just need something with which to learn Linux--but on an old 32bit lenovo, would Lubuntu be ok?
I haven't tried out OpenSUSE yet because they have no live-USB. I don't get why some distro's don't support it, it just leads to less people using the distro.
I did this on an old 32 bit box. I installed Manjaro 32 bit on a USB. It will boot, it is up and running but it will not update anything. So I cleaned off the flash drive and did it again, same thing. I don't know but over the years I've given Manjaro a try but it always seems like a headache. Over the past decade I've had many different distros installed but it always seems that Manjaro and that crowd are just a bigger learning curve than I like. Linux Mint and LMDE work right out of the box and maybe it is because of my familiarity with it? I have another older box, an Asus T100 which is a strange animal. It is 32 bit with 64 bit hardware. So when I want to boot a 64 bit live OS stick, I have to make sure there is a boot32 in the efi/boot on the stick. Oh except for Manjaro. Manjaro creates a read only iso and I never get a chance to try it on that little comp. I need to do a few things to get the wireless working and that means persistence which Manjaro isn't keen about. So that little comp runs Mint Mate 20 and does pretty darn well for a netbook. It is a nice thing to have while laying on the couch. Well Manjaro has come out and said, hey we don't have the capabilities to allow their ISO to run with a persistence conf but hey there is ALMA. But you need Manjaro to get ALMA. A sysop said they do read only ISO so that nobody can place malware on their ISO. Hm? I know a computer science guy that works for NAS that I'm betting could do away with that read only aspect.
Mint XFCE on a flashdrive displays after starting: MDM could not write to your authentication file. ...Cannot write to your home directory. What might be the problem? Never seen this before
I have a problem, if I install the full thing (via the installer and 2 usb drives) It works fine on the pc it boots first, but won't boot on other computers
I wonder if you can help me what is the best way of wiping a harddrive partition as at the moment I have to keep taking the drive out of my laptop and put it in my windows machine and you diskpart to remove the partition, is there a live CD of some kind I can use to do this so I dont have to remove my harddrive from my laptop to install a new OS?
Hi @switched to Linux, what if I want to take advantage of the portability of a USB operating system, but the speed of a persistent system hard drive. How could I have a USB bootable drive but make the persistence a completely different physical volume? My goal would be to still have the same performance as a full install, with applications installed to a separate system volume
Yes...a tad too close I would say. This was recorded with the professional camera, not the web cam and I put it as far back on the desk as I could...should have just put it on the tripod behind the desk :)
I'm using a persistent copy of KDE Neon on a ssd set in a usb enclosure, mainly because kde didn't want to install on that drive from a live usb stick. Everything seems to be working, What i wanted to know is what;s the pitfalls of doing it this way?
You will not get system updates, so you will need to update the system with each release. Not a huge problem overall. It will actually be a little more secure like the up coming immutable systems, but you can't as easily modify the system.
@@SwitchedtoLinux "sudo apt update" in konsole fixes that problem..As for user not being able to change, perfect for me, no prompts for password, even better..Ideal to boot up on any old computer, dazzle the owner, and then Install it right there. 😊
Endless OS has an auto persistence. no need to set up, once we try the live E., the next time you boot into the drive, setting and files are save and it allows up to 16 gigabytes of persistence storage. Just though that I should mention cause you didn't. cheers!
One more thing . Puppy is meant to run as a live version . Puppy is kinda funny as you have to configure a new persistent volume for each computer you plug it into in order to save your files .
Holly hell . I just tried to install mint on my experimental stick and it worked . After a few Bing searches , I found out that you had to have a ext4 file system then make a partition on the destination thumb drive . I thought it could only be done by messing with the firmware of the thumb drive to make Linux think it was a SSD I wasnt willing to do that because it can mess up the drive ....... Im ecstatic right now !!!!!!!!!
Cool!! And good luck...yes, most Linux installers are very good. I have had some issues with Debian in the last six months, but otherwise it is a good experience.
Thanks for the reply . I dub you as a guy that knows what he is talking about in this respect . So I decided there must be something I am missing and decided to try it again after failing in the past . Enjoy the channel !!!! thanks again .
You installed Linux on a flashdrive with persistence, it works properly. Now your friend want such a flashdrive. How do you copy/clone that Linux onto another flashdrive?
So I have a Windows laptop and I want to learn more about Linux. So I can take a Live USB and install it onto another USB and make that act like a drive on the same Windows laptop w/o affecting it?? I have a bunch of 128 gig USB keys I'd like to run Linux off of like a HD but not affect the base laptop... Thanks
Yes, just make sure you install the system on a computer where you can remove the hard drive during the install so you do not mess up the disk in the computer.
@@tyrewald9083 There is no problem, I just want to make sure I can do what I am thinking about.... So you created a USB drive w/o disconnecting the HD?
ok vidio is cool thank you but... the live drive works well with persistence so this is what i am using, however... .when installed on a USB 3 key the computer will not boot !
Why wouldn't you want to tho? If I want to run my OS off of a flash drive but not as my daily driver, why wouldn't I? It's convenient. Other thing is, who doesn't know this stuff? This is pretty common knowledge for anyone who has used Linux. What I want to know is how to make a linux live key persistent. Without Rufus on a Linux Distro.
Actually, I tried Manjaro(I forgot the version but it was 64bit) and Fedora 25 MATE COMPIZ 32bit, Debian stretch xfce 64bit. I used btrfs for root partition and it worked. But it was soooo slooooooo even on i5 2.3Ghz with 4GB RAM. Atleast they booted which, same wasnt the case for Ubuntu and Mint. So in my case, I think its better to use a persistence volume rather than an actual installation. For those who will do it, my suggestion is to use btrfs filesystem and no swap on the flash drive while partitioning. Its also because your flashdrive installation is mostly tailored for that specific computer and may not boot in other computers while a live key is generally designed to adjust to the computer hardware. Well, somewhere on Gentoo wiki, I read that you need to partition rest of the drive as a linux supported filesystem and while booting, pass the kernel parameter aufs=/dev/sda3 or the partition you created manually for persistence. I am unsure for encrypted persistence though. And then you will be prompted for size. I am also unsure if its only for gentoo or its the same for other distro as well.
I want to do this because I'm running WIN10 Pro on a SBC with 4GB RAM an 64GB storage. I can install Ubuntu on a USB 3.0 drive and not worry about storage on my WIN10 Pro drive.
12:21 mayby do video how install it usb without destroying fully working windows pc LOL. its allways scary want insta grub master... what what. is it replalace my windows boot or is it just install it usb LOL that is scary last 15 years
@@PizzaLovingNerd I guess I didnt make my point very clear . My reasoning was that you can only install Linux to a thumb drive with 4GB of persistent storage . I have never found a decent program to install a distro on Linux that can configure the persistent volume to 4GB without issues . Unetbootin is a Linux program that can do it , but it is buggy and does not want to install some of the lesser known distros . I have just figured out how to do a full install on a thumb drive that takes up the whole drive .
Every single RUclipsr that makes a video about live USB or multiboot USBS, ventoy, and so on, should play your video to their viewers first. Live and bootable are not necessarily the same. People say disc imagine when there is no disc needed or involved. unfortunately, in the technology world, terminology is a huge barrier for beginners because it can vary so wildly. When I found out that a computer could be a host and a client at the same time, because those words meant the same thing OR that same computer could be a host or a client while also being a host and a client, just thinking about it right now makes me want to punch somebody in the face because when you read what I'm typing, it's just absolutely idiotic
I’m trying to understand entirely what this could mean, as far as the use case possibilities. I’m sure I will figure it out if I keep reading, etc. I mostly wanted to know if I can’t just install on the 128gb SSD i’m booting Linux Mint from. Should it just overwrite the “live key” with the install and be fine?
@@stateportSound_wav ventoy can boot just about every distro. What took me a while to realize is unless the distro has persistent storage (which some live distros do not) then i need a 2nd,3rd,4th drive to install my multiple distributions too.
@@TinkerTech same, I found out my old “external” drive was actually an hdd in a USB-hub enclosure, so I put it in the system and it works. Actually went with Atlas OS main and will get Mint running on VMware. I want to get my live install converted to the virtual installation (currently on an extHD), but not sure if that’s possible.
@@stateportSound_wav lol!! I've found that little easter egg as well. In fact you've reminded me of a video I've been wanting to make. There are a bunch of items in the tech world that can be repurposed with little or no effort and with less money. Thank you
I have started from scratch yesterday and thanx to your teaching online deleted windows 10 and cold turkey installed linux ubuntu..... i feel like a computer tech!!!! thank you for being an awesome teacher!
Congrats and you are welcome!
Very very informative, cleared up a lot of things. I almost made a live USB with persistent volume when all I wanted was really to install to USB.
Hell yeah thank you for the information man you explained alot of things that Ive been needing to know and you did it in such a simple and to the point type of way. Thanks
Thank you so much for posting this video!!!
I i tried for a couple of days to make a persistent ubuntu ssd for windows 10 laptop....always ran into glitches ...
But now after seeing this video, i am just going to have a 2nd drive for storing files while using linux installed on the 1st USB drive at the same time!!!
Wow. All night trying to figure it out--simple and awesome!!
Thank you for sharing, brother!
Fantastic explanation!
Thank you for this. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't modify storage properly. Installed it on an external HDD, then I found this video. No problem, I was hoping to modify this one as a main build. It's outdated, but I'm hoping to juice it up. I'll be testing a lot of distros though, so I needed to know this part
At last got something genuinely informative...
im really glad you made this, it really helped clear up my confusion. im about to install linux on my usb because linux doesnt agree with my gaming laptop when I install it to the hard drive.
For someone who's created two of the three drives discussed here, it sure would be handy to have Option A, Option B, and Option C (with an option d as a distinct possibility) with instructions. I've created the L, LP, and Linux Mint OS Thumb drives/HDD/SSD's, but there's so much time between executables that the processes are frequently lost. I look forward to my first Linux Mint OS USB and perhaps that should be my next experiment (since the Linux Persistent escaped me in-so-far as functionality is concerned). Thank you so much for the wonderful information! A thousand thumbs up (or is it thumb ups?)!!!
A fully functional OS set up the way you like it that can boot on any pc, doesn't ask passwords etc.and can be installed immediately makes persistent copies WONDERFUL.
THANKS-- lots of great points that I hadn't thiought of and might USE... and I know this is 4 years old- but that doesn't matter.
Good advice ! Just bought a 64 GB usb 3 pen drive, regular usb male one end, usb C male other end to go to my Galaxy Note 8. Forget about persistence, I'm going to use this as a full linux i stalled drive !
Great video
IMHO, MX Linux is the easiest way to make a persistent key.
Thank you
Perfect timing
Man! Don't know how to thank you! In fact I do, +subscribe! You solved my problem!
Excellent and Welcome!
I am swithing to Linux tonight! Wish me luck! F U Windows!
Oh sweet Jesus, I've been trying to do it all wrong for years. I feel so stupid lol. I was afraid if I hit install it would partition/ write over my main drive. I'll try making a Linux USB again. Thanks a bunch
I have a laptop that requires an unusually sized, fairly expensive NVME drive which I don't have. So I was thinking of full-installing a distro on an SD card to use that as my "hard drive." Got lazy and never got around to it; but that's another use case for that.
Immense thank you (!!) for this video, the only video I found about actually installing linux TO usb, not FROM usb. Given how confusing the topic could be, could you please (please please..) leave any info off the top your head about how exactly to perform Full Install (not live or persistance or "install to harddrive from usb") of Debian KDE to a USB stick ? Also, since it's full install, is it possible to use netinstaller for it ? (I was told it could be better for finding drivers for my 2-in-1 laptop). also-also, I was told not to use flashdrives >16gb for live , is this also applicable to Full install ? If no, could I occupy all 128 gbs of the flashdrive ? Also-also-also, could such installation be done on a partition of a USB ? If yes, I could have a few distros on one usb ? In any case, can I access files on such USB from windows ? Please halp, oh rare knowledge keeper !
Last year I picked up a Lattiude 7480 that had a Micro SD slot. I didn't want to mess up my Windows partition because I didn't plant to keep it for a long time. So, I picked up an 8 gb card, tossed it in after burning Mint 18 to the card. I installed the OS but it had been soooo slow and that was odd since it booted from a live key very fast. What I ended up doing was blowing that partition out and using a persistence partition instead like Android. Really, really great stuff.
The reason it ran so slow is your micro SD slot is likely USB 2.0 . To run most of these versions of Linux from removable media , you have to have a 3.0 or it will not be usable .
Apophis agreed. It was very slow. Now it runs for a live key well, but not to actually install.
Hey!
Q1.Can I use my internal HDD like installing apps and other files usong Persistent usb??
Q2. Can I make persistent usb from the live session of that usb itself ??
This new camera looks far better then the webcam
I have Manjaro i3 Linux on an external drive. I was showing my CS teacher something and as I was rotating my laptop to show him, the external drive fell off the desk and detached itself from the USB-A to miniUSB-B cable. Luckily, I reattached the drive, hard shutdown the laptop (as the OS’s shutdown function was broke from the drive fall), and turned it back on, and it still works. Thank God for journaling file systems!
(Also, my CS professor is tired of Windows being sluggish on his laptop and is switching to Linux. Any recommendations?)
Noble&Savage I was partially confused by the term “lappy”, but I’ll pass on the recommendation.
thanks for the video. This is the deal for me: I want to use Atomic wallet from a pendrive for security; but when I install different distros to the usb, they work very very slow (my computer is kind of old) while ISOS run really fast and efficiently; the problem with distros like puppy is that atomic doesn't work in them; the same goes for isos of most other distros. Manjaro ISO on the other hand, runs atomic perfectly. So if I could put a manjaro ISO in a USB with persistence, that would be a perfect solution for me
can i do both on a same drive ? like my drive x has two partition . I wanna use one partition as live usb and on other partition i actually want to install linux .
I really wanted to try linux so i created a elementary os usb drive...
Then my hard-disk crashed....
I booted into elementary os and installed mkusb and created a persistent drive of ubuntu 20.04...
There I have a full computer to use until my hard-disk arrives
This really saved me because i am running it off a old 8gb with 2 gb as usable persistence usb 2.0 drive
the os is pretty usable
Then i created a persistent drive of kde neon on a generic usb there i noticed what is the problem with slow boot drives. It was really laggy while the 'live' of kde neon worked just fine...
I will try a install on usb sometime later and give you the results
Great I was planning to install Linux mint onto my macOS but they hesitate because my MacBook starts to updating, now I know that there is better opinions then full installation or partition that could be albo risky
When I was doing my review of Linux Mint, and I accidentally installed Mint to my SD card... I had footage on that lol
Hello kitty's..!!!
Which system installer would you recommend.
I've played with pinguy builder, and the excellent Mx/antix tools
Why does persistent Linux exist if i can just install Linux instead?
Thank you for the video. As you presented, I really want Linux Mint installed to a USB what can accept changes. I must have been spoiled, originally, I ended up buying Knoppix bootable USBs because Knoppix would run on my older desktop and there was an icon on the desktop that easily created another bootable USB that would retain changes.
With Linux Mint there seems to be mass confusion in the Facebook groups and several other articles and videos about how to install to a USB so that changes would be retained - calling this persistence.
I'm not sure how - probably a combination of mkusb and perhaps GParted, I managed to create a USB with the persistence you mentioned (and seems I may not need or want). Today I tried to create another one and using mkusb it did boot, but not keep changes. I tried the Install Linux Mint icon on the desktop and ended up losing the persistence on my main Linux Mint Boot USB - sigh.
I'll look through your videos and see if there is one that describes how to do an install to USB. As a side note, I can see how sometimes I would like to start over with a fresh install and sometimes I would like to make a working backup copy of my USB boot drive as it has evolved over time.
I'll start reviewing your other videos - I kept thinking that with Linux Mint it just shouldn't be so hard and seemed weird to have to install other software from the terminal mode to be able to create a functioning USB that keeps changes.
Thanks - Dave
Here it is:
ruclips.net/video/97Q11rZV9Ww/видео.html
There's a prog called Unetbootin that allows the creation of persistent volumes. There's also a terminal one called mkusb from France that's primitive but works nicely. One thing about installing to a removable media is what do you do about swapping?
rufus is a much better tool than unetbootin
@@shekelboob Problem with Rufus is it's Windows only
@@abrundag true
Sorry, how long is the lifespan of a usb stick with a full Linux installation? I just need something with which to learn Linux--but on an old 32bit lenovo, would Lubuntu be ok?
I haven't tried out OpenSUSE yet because they have no live-USB. I don't get why some distro's don't support it, it just leads to less people using the distro.
I did this on an old 32 bit box. I installed Manjaro 32 bit on a USB. It will boot, it is up and running but it will not update anything. So I cleaned off the flash drive and did it again, same thing.
I don't know but over the years I've given Manjaro a try but it always seems like a headache. Over the past decade I've had many different distros installed but it always seems that Manjaro and that crowd are just a bigger learning curve than I like. Linux Mint and LMDE work right out of the box and maybe it is because of my familiarity with it?
I have another older box, an Asus T100 which is a strange animal. It is 32 bit with 64 bit hardware. So when I want to boot a 64 bit live OS stick, I have to make sure there is a boot32 in the efi/boot on the stick. Oh except for Manjaro. Manjaro creates a read only iso and I never get a chance to try it on that little comp. I need to do a few things to get the wireless working and that means persistence which Manjaro isn't keen about. So that little comp runs Mint Mate 20 and does pretty darn well for a netbook. It is a nice thing to have while laying on the couch.
Well Manjaro has come out and said, hey we don't have the capabilities to allow their ISO to run with a persistence conf but hey there is ALMA. But you need Manjaro to get ALMA. A sysop said they do read only ISO so that nobody can place malware on their ISO. Hm? I know a computer science guy that works for NAS that I'm betting could do away with that read only aspect.
Worth noting, you need a descent USB stick to install the system to, I have a kingston 64gb, it has write speeds of 8mb.. it's horrible
So I have a question.
Can I both install a distro on a USB and have a multiboot for ISOs on the same drive?
I have a live slackware mate with a persistence on the usb and don't know how to save to Persistence Partition?
What if i want a life key but updated and with my stuff but will reset at every reboot (my personal life key)
Mint XFCE on a flashdrive displays after starting: MDM could not write to your authentication file. ...Cannot write to your home directory. What might be the problem? Never seen this before
The disk could be corrupt is the first thing that comes to mind.
I have a problem, if I install the full thing (via the installer and 2 usb drives) It works fine on the pc it boots first, but won't boot on other computers
I wonder if you can help me what is the best way of wiping a harddrive partition as at the moment I have to keep taking the drive out of my laptop and put it in my windows machine and you diskpart to remove the partition, is there a live CD of some kind I can use to do this so I dont have to remove my harddrive from my laptop to install a new OS?
@space Yes you can use a GParted USB key gparted.org/liveusb.php
gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=gparted-live-manual
Cheers
Thank you Serge and Tommy T.
Hi @switched to Linux, what if I want to take advantage of the portability of a USB operating system, but the speed of a persistent system hard drive. How could I have a USB bootable drive but make the persistence a completely different physical volume? My goal would be to still have the same performance as a full install, with applications installed to a separate system volume
You would not use persistence in that case, you just install the OS on the drive and encrypt it with LUKS
lol, Camera is a little closer than usual or is it just me.
Yes...a tad too close I would say. This was recorded with the professional camera, not the web cam and I put it as far back on the desk as I could...should have just put it on the tripod behind the desk :)
@@SwitchedtoLinux I'm sure the cat will love knocking around the professional camera more than a cheap webcam. What a thoughtful cat servant! :)
I'm using a persistent copy of KDE Neon on a ssd set in a usb enclosure, mainly because kde didn't want to install on that drive from a live usb stick. Everything seems to be working, What i wanted to know is what;s the pitfalls of doing it this way?
You will not get system updates, so you will need to update the system with each release. Not a huge problem overall. It will actually be a little more secure like the up coming immutable systems, but you can't as easily modify the system.
@@SwitchedtoLinux "sudo apt update" in konsole fixes that problem..As for user not being able to change, perfect for me, no prompts for password, even better..Ideal to boot up on any old computer, dazzle the owner, and then Install it right there. 😊
Currently, I'm having an issue with UEFI not showing the "boot from usb option" when restarting.
Is SecureBoot enabled? If so, turn it off.
Maybe you can help me with a problem i have trying to install linux
i love linux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Endless OS has an auto persistence. no need to set up, once we try the live E., the next time you boot into the drive, setting and files are save and it allows up to 16 gigabytes of persistence storage. Just though that I should mention cause you didn't. cheers!
i am so dumb...searching how to create persistent volume , when this is so much simpler
Please show us how it is done.....
Last time I tried to install linux onto a USB it went wrong.
One more thing . Puppy is meant to run as a live version . Puppy is kinda funny as you have to configure a new persistent volume for each computer you plug it into in order to save your files .
Holly hell . I just tried to install mint on my experimental stick and it worked . After a few Bing searches , I found out that you had to have a ext4 file system then make a partition on the destination thumb drive . I thought it could only be done by messing with the firmware of the thumb drive to make Linux think it was a SSD I wasnt willing to do that because it can mess up the drive ....... Im ecstatic right now !!!!!!!!!
Cool!! And good luck...yes, most Linux installers are very good. I have had some issues with Debian in the last six months, but otherwise it is a good experience.
Thanks for the reply . I dub you as a guy that knows what he is talking about in this respect . So I decided there must be something I am missing and decided to try it again after failing in the past . Enjoy the channel !!!! thanks again .
Switched from linux mint to manjaro 💪
which desktop?
@@priit7777 cinnamon
Which should I choose?:
1) Raspberry OS desktop edition
2) MX Linux
3) Linux Mint
if You are looking for a daily driver / do-all solution, Linux Mint all the way
You installed Linux on a flashdrive with persistence, it works properly. Now your friend want such a flashdrive. How do you copy/clone that Linux onto another flashdrive?
Thanx, I'll try it..AFTER removing the SSD!
So I have a Windows laptop and I want to learn more about Linux. So I can take a Live USB and install it onto another USB and make that act like a drive on the same Windows laptop w/o affecting it?? I have a bunch of 128 gig USB keys I'd like to run Linux off of like a HD but not affect the base laptop... Thanks
Yes, just make sure you install the system on a computer where you can remove the hard drive during the install so you do not mess up the disk in the computer.
@@SwitchedtoLinux Well that wont work... my ultra book is sealed and is a pain in the ass to remove
what about creating the USB drive on a desktop PC then boot it on the laptop?
I did this all the time-what is the problem?
@@tyrewald9083 There is no problem, I just want to make sure I can do what I am thinking about.... So you created a USB drive w/o disconnecting the HD?
ok vidio is cool thank you but... the live drive works well with persistence so this is what i am using, however... .when installed on a USB 3 key the computer will not boot !
does this mean that my Linux storage will go to the usb
If you are running your Linux OS from the USB, yes, the USB is the default storage.
Why wouldn't you want to tho? If I want to run my OS off of a flash drive but not as my daily driver, why wouldn't I? It's convenient. Other thing is, who doesn't know this stuff? This is pretty common knowledge for anyone who has used Linux. What I want to know is how to make a linux live key persistent. Without Rufus on a Linux Distro.
Actually, I tried Manjaro(I forgot the version but it was 64bit) and Fedora 25 MATE COMPIZ 32bit, Debian stretch xfce 64bit. I used btrfs for root partition and it worked. But it was soooo slooooooo even on i5 2.3Ghz with 4GB RAM. Atleast they booted which, same wasnt the case for Ubuntu and Mint. So in my case, I think its better to use a persistence volume rather than an actual installation. For those who will do it, my suggestion is to use btrfs filesystem and no swap on the flash drive while partitioning. Its also because your flashdrive installation is mostly tailored for that specific computer and may not boot in other computers while a live key is generally designed to adjust to the computer hardware.
Well, somewhere on Gentoo wiki, I read that you need to partition rest of the drive as a linux supported filesystem and while booting, pass the kernel parameter aufs=/dev/sda3 or the partition you created manually for persistence. I am unsure for encrypted persistence though. And then you will be prompted for size. I am also unsure if its only for gentoo or its the same for other distro as well.
but you need two USB, which my surface does not have :(
why would someone do that if he had installed linux already ?
I want to do this because I'm running WIN10 Pro on a SBC with 4GB RAM an 64GB storage. I can install Ubuntu on a USB 3.0 drive and not worry about storage on my WIN10 Pro drive.
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I did that ta mess with the kidz.
12:21 mayby do video how install it usb without destroying fully working windows pc LOL. its allways scary want insta grub master... what what. is it replalace my windows boot or is it just install it usb LOL that is scary last 15 years
If they would make a decant program for INSTALLING Linux , I would be Windows free .
Apophis What do you mean? You just burn the distribution to the USB and install it from the installer
@@PizzaLovingNerd I guess I didnt make my point very clear . My reasoning was that you can only install Linux to a thumb drive with 4GB of persistent storage . I have never found a decent program to install a distro on Linux that can configure the persistent volume to 4GB without issues . Unetbootin is a Linux program that can do it , but it is buggy and does not want to install some of the lesser known distros . I have just figured out how to do a full install on a thumb drive that takes up the whole drive .
Tom, where is the cat?
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I too have the same question....having watched this video twice !!! Lol ! Please clarify this Persistant Question of mine !
Yes only for geeks
Every single RUclipsr that makes a video about live USB or multiboot USBS, ventoy, and so on, should play your video to their viewers first.
Live and bootable are not necessarily the same. People say disc imagine when there is no disc needed or involved. unfortunately, in the technology world, terminology is a huge barrier for beginners because it can vary so wildly.
When I found out that a computer could be a host and a client at the same time, because those words meant the same thing OR that same computer could be a host or a client while also being a host and a client, just thinking about it right now makes me want to punch somebody in the face because when you read what I'm typing, it's just absolutely idiotic
I’m trying to understand entirely what this could mean, as far as the use case possibilities. I’m sure I will figure it out if I keep reading, etc.
I mostly wanted to know if I can’t just install on the 128gb SSD i’m booting Linux Mint from. Should it just overwrite the “live key” with the install and be fine?
@@stateportSound_wav ventoy can boot just about every distro. What took me a while to realize is unless the distro has persistent storage (which some live distros do not) then i need a 2nd,3rd,4th drive to install my multiple distributions too.
@@TinkerTech same, I found out my old “external” drive was actually an hdd in a USB-hub enclosure, so I put it in the system and it works. Actually went with Atlas OS main and will get Mint running on VMware. I want to get my live install converted to the virtual installation (currently on an extHD), but not sure if that’s possible.
@@stateportSound_wav lol!! I've found that little easter egg as well. In fact you've reminded me of a video I've been wanting to make. There are a bunch of items in the tech world that can be repurposed with little or no effort and with less money. Thank you
@@TinkerTech looking forward to it!
Thank you