I've been using Rufus since about a year after it first came out. It is AWESOME! I will never understand the popularity of Balena Etcher. Every time Balena failed to produce a bootable flash drive from an ISO, Rufus worked perfectly. And Rufus has many more options. The Fedora Media Writer is great on Linux and has never failed to make a bootable USB for me.
I would use a longer adaptor to connect two boards and storage connector. And keep them both away at right angle position into a custom case and use a 120mm case fan to push air in that custom case. It's just an idea. I don't know if Raspberry Pi will look into it. Because more the space in case will give you more cooling and options for airflow.
Manually creating a persistent partition on the USB stick is not difficult. I did it on my Kali stick (based on Debian as are Ubuntu and Mint) so it will probably work fine. Once you have the bootable ISO on the USB, open it with a partitioning tool like gparted and create a new partition on the USB stick with say 'ext3' filesystem with the label 'persistence' (ext3 so no journal so don't burn the disk too fast.) Then mount the partition and create a file called 'persistence.conf' in it's root directory which contains only the line '/ union'. Unmount the USB stick, boot into it and see how it goes. Mine automatically provided a 'persistence' mode so hopefully you get the same.
I was looking at the Pi 5 and it was running $150+ with the basic accessories like case, active cooling etc. with 8GB of RAM. If someone is looking for a cheap 'Linux Box', and not using it for a project, then there are way cheaper options. I have a small Mini-PC I paid $89 for on sale, it has 8GB of Ram and and a 256GB SSD, came with Windows 11, I erased that and slapped Linux on it and it works fine. For the price of a Pi 5, you could buy a Mini-PC with double the RAM and a 512 GB SSD (I double checked on Amazon)
It is operating system that is installed usually like a file being moved (ISO) file or live system Unlike a standard install. Though using a recordable and changeable file system. Where a "live" amnesiac system lives in ram pulling from the USB though not writing to the drive. Even though you can install programs or update both the persistent one will remain after reboot and the live will be back to square one. If you look up TAILS os it has both. On one drive and a good explanation.
Persistence is just another partition on the USB stick that will hold data or programs or updates that cannot be made to the read-only ISO partition. You can then use the USB stick either as the original read-only ISO, or with persistence mode giving you what looks like write access to the filesystem. You can also copy files to the persistence partition from other operating systems to make the data available to the system you boot from the USB stick. It's actually easy to set up manually by creating a second partition on the USB stick (maybe use gparted), make an ext3 filesystem labelled 'persistence' in the partition and add a file called 'persistence.conf' into the root directory of it containing the single line '/ union'. You should then have both the original read-only ISO system and the persistence mode system available on next boot. You can't do this trick with Ventoy as far as I know
I'm not sure that you can use persistence with Ventoy. I doubt it as Ventoy usually takes over the whole USB space leaving no room for a persistence partition, and I'm not sure that an ISO booted from Ventoy would even see the persistence partition. Ventoy is nevertheless a great tool though I've found it not to work with some hardware.
When I first discovered Ventoy I wasted a whole day playing with it (venTOY!) and didn't get any work done. It's like distrohopping that fits in my pocket! Seriously I booted probably a dozen different OSs with it.
I've been using Rufus since about a year after it first came out. It is AWESOME! I will never understand the popularity of Balena Etcher. Every time Balena failed to produce a bootable flash drive from an ISO, Rufus worked perfectly. And Rufus has many more options. The Fedora Media Writer is great on Linux and has never failed to make a bootable USB for me.
The Fedora Media Writer definitely saves a lot of time when creating live USB-C sticks of the latest releases and spins.
Balena is available on Linux, Mac and Windows vs Rufus only on Windows. Maybe thats the reason. Rufus was the first image writer i used and i love it.
I would use a longer adaptor to connect two boards and storage connector. And keep them both away at right angle position into a custom case and use a 120mm case fan to push air in that custom case. It's just an idea. I don't know if Raspberry Pi will look into it. Because more the space in case will give you more cooling and options for airflow.
Still have my CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4. Might get Pi 5 soon.
Rufus! My very fav! Local installs on windows 11? Rufus!~
Hmmm... I never thought to try my mintstick apps in my Mint machines for making persistent installs. I shall have to try it.
Manually creating a persistent partition on the USB stick is not difficult. I did it on my Kali stick (based on Debian as are Ubuntu and Mint) so it will probably work fine.
Once you have the bootable ISO on the USB, open it with a partitioning tool like gparted and create a new partition on the USB stick with say 'ext3' filesystem with the label 'persistence' (ext3 so no journal so don't burn the disk too fast.) Then mount the partition and create a file called 'persistence.conf' in it's root directory which contains only the line '/ union'. Unmount the USB stick, boot into it and see how it goes. Mine automatically provided a 'persistence' mode so hopefully you get the same.
@@dingokidneys That is brilliant! Thanks!
I was looking at the Pi 5 and it was running $150+ with the basic accessories like case, active cooling etc. with 8GB of RAM. If someone is looking for a cheap 'Linux Box', and not using it for a project, then there are way cheaper options. I have a small Mini-PC I paid $89 for on sale, it has 8GB of Ram and and a 256GB SSD, came with Windows 11, I erased that and slapped Linux on it and it works fine. For the price of a Pi 5, you could buy a Mini-PC with double the RAM and a 512 GB SSD (I double checked on Amazon)
Good point. Used PCs can be even cheaper. The one thing is that Pi has lower power usage if you want to run off-grid 12v or 5v
I have no idea what a persistent USB drive is or does
It is operating system that is installed usually like a file being moved (ISO) file or live system Unlike a standard install. Though using a recordable and changeable file system. Where a "live" amnesiac system lives in ram pulling from the USB though not writing to the drive. Even though you can install programs or update both the persistent one will remain after reboot and the live will be back to square one. If you look up TAILS os it has both. On one drive and a good explanation.
@@SailAway33 Interesting stuff, thanks !
Persistence is just another partition on the USB stick that will hold data or programs or updates that cannot be made to the read-only ISO partition. You can then use the USB stick either as the original read-only ISO, or with persistence mode giving you what looks like write access to the filesystem. You can also copy files to the persistence partition from other operating systems to make the data available to the system you boot from the USB stick.
It's actually easy to set up manually by creating a second partition on the USB stick (maybe use gparted), make an ext3 filesystem labelled 'persistence' in the partition and add a file called 'persistence.conf' into the root directory of it containing the single line '/ union'. You should then have both the original read-only ISO system and the persistence mode system available on next boot.
You can't do this trick with Ventoy as far as I know
Rufus and Etcher are obsolete given we now have ventoy where I can put multiple iso's on.
went to use ventoy, opensuse would not launch but did when imaged to a normal usb stick.
@@DraXaly You can use the web version where it does it online.
I'm not sure that you can use persistence with Ventoy. I doubt it as Ventoy usually takes over the whole USB space leaving no room for a persistence partition, and I'm not sure that an ISO booted from Ventoy would even see the persistence partition. Ventoy is nevertheless a great tool though I've found it not to work with some hardware.
When I first discovered Ventoy I wasted a whole day playing with it (venTOY!) and didn't get any work done. It's like distrohopping that fits in my pocket! Seriously I booted probably a dozen different OSs with it.
Rufus has a nice feature for upgrading older pc's to windows 11, It has optional check marks to bypass the hardware checks.
Ventoy is good 2
Whu do people use Rufus lol