[Solved]Help creating Live USB flash drive

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Re: Help creating Live USB flash drive

#11 Post by BitJam »

williepabon wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2020 11:36 amAfter you explained that I need to enable persistence after the LiveUSB is created (thought it was enabled when I created it),[...]
FWIW, you do need to enable persistence twice. If you had created a live-usb using a simple "cp" or "dd" command then the live-usb would be read-only and you could not store persistence files on it. By using the live-usb-maker program you created a read-write live-usb that supports persistence.

But as JayM explained, persistence is not turned on automatically. You can choose to enable persistence or not on every live boot. You can also choose between static and dynamic root persistence on every boot.

I'm sorry that having to enable persistence twice can be confusing for newcomers. We tried to strike the right balance between, power, ease of use, and simplicity.
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Re: Help creating Live USB flash drive

#12 Post by Huckleberry Finn »

user-green wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:28 pm 3. Copy ISO to an USB memory like this;
# cp MX-19.2_x64.iso /dev/sdb
P.S. It might not always be sdb.

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Re: [Solved]Help creating Live USB flash drive

#13 Post by user-green »

>P.S. It might not always be sdb.

That is right. You had better to check a device name first. This is very important.
It might be sdb, adc, ade and so on, depending on your system.

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