what is this during usb installation ubuntu 11.04:"select a persistent space in stick for storing changes" changes mean additional content, or upgrades including personal additional files added to stick or?
View 6 RepliesI'm booting my server from a USB stick. It's working fine, but the root of my file system when booted only has about 100MB left. The USB stick itself has a little over 1GB free. How can I make / take up more space on the stick?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just set-up my fedora-14 live usb on an 8gb usb hard drive but I see the space left on '/' is less than 800mb (I created a 3.5gb persistent file) like so:
Code:
livecd-iso-to-disk
--unencrypted-home --home-size-mb 3500
--overlay-size-mb 3500 Fedora-14-x84_64-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdc1
but I still don't have much space to install programs.
Is there a way to trick yum into installing programs under /home/liveuser/programs instead ?:
Code:
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/live-rw 3.0G 2.8G 223M 93% /
tmpfs 1002M 352K 1002M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 7.4G 2.0G 5.1G 28% /mnt/live
/dev/loop5 3.2G 130M 2.9G 5% /home
varcacheyum 1002M 0 1002M 0% /var/cache/yum
/tmp 1002M 92K 1002M 1% /tmp
vartmp 1002M 0 1002M 0% /var/tmp
I want to find all users shown in the /home/ directory whose disk consumption is more than 500MB. The following command works as expected.
cd /home/ && du */ -hs
68K ajay/
902M john/
250M websites/
From the above example, only 902M john/ should be returned.
How can I make the find command output the same results?
I'm trying to install Ubuntu server 9.10 x64 on the following hardware:
Amd 64 2.2 Ghz
Kingston Hyper x 1gb
PATA 160gb HD
DFI Lanparty Motherboard
The issue is that the install gets stuck at 74% - storing language.
I have tried different ISO's and burnt different CD's.
I've successfully installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop but I'm having trouble even trying it on my desktop. I tried making both a USB installer and a CD from the .iso image, but when I pop in the CD or insert the USB stick into my desktop and select "Try Ubuntu without making changes to this computer", it manages to get to the chime but nothing is displayed. Apparently the OS hangs up after that or there's a problem with the display. Does this mean Ubuntu will not run on my desktop? I have experienced this not only with Ubuntu 10.04, but other versions too, like Kubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 9.04. Laptop Specs : Acer Aspire 4520, AMD Turion X2 TL-58 (Dual Core 1.9GHz), 2GB DDR2-800, Nvidia 7000M GPU, Nvidia 610M chipset (?), WD 320GB mobile hard disk. Desktop Specs : AMD Phenom II X3 720, MSI 785GM-E65, 2GB DDR3-1333, ATI HD5670 1GB (Sapphire), Realtek ALC889 audio, WD 1TB Green Power HDD, two LG optical drives, TP-Link TL-WN781N PCIE Wifi-N adapter. Is there any way I can try Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop without making changes to it? FYI I've successfully installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a laptop using an ATI HD3200 GPU.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI've upgraded the generic kernel of my Xubuntu Karmic AMD64 persistent USB installation with the ubuntustudio realtime kernel (2.6.31.9.10). The thing is that the generic kernel is still loading as default and I don't have the option on the boot menu to choose the new one. I don't know how to edit this Grub2 version (grub-pc 1.97 beta 4).I haven't found a GUI package for this either.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am currently running Windows 7 and would like to "play around" with Linux and learn how to use it, but am not willing to entirely "jump ship: as of yet. Thus, I would like to be able to use my USB key (32 gig) that is persistent. I have had no success in being able to get this to work; I went to http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ and attempted several different times and the only one I could get to work was not persistent.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI would like to make all directories except /home non persisent this way any changes are undone by a reboot. (this will be used by kids)Where do I start?I've worked with Linux for years, but never tried this.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI would like to know if I can update a live USB version of 10.04I am, unofficially, running ubuntu 10.04 live USB version from a partition on my 250GB USB HDD at work.All the apps I use are web bassed except for zeacom and groupwise which I run from a virtual machine I created using virtualbox ose, this machine is one the network running AD and novel and also MS office and uniflow printing
Everything at the moment is running quite well: I tried this a while ago (9.04 or earlier) but I tried enabling update manager and this killed the boot for my live USB and I don't what to risk toying with a system that is running well but I also want to be up to date.
i made space by shrinking my window partition and so i have unallocated and would like to add to sda2 to have more space. Check out this pic. How can i do this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to ask, its is possible to install ubuntu in a harddisk as a non persistent environment? i mean, i want my ubuntu is always clean everytime it is restart, like a live usb.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've just installed UNR version of Ubuntu on one of my thumb drives and was wondering what I needed to do to for making it have persistent changes? I've seen the different tools and the usb creator they have on Ubuntu already but I want to do it myself from scratch. What files do I need to edit to make the drive persistent? I made the bootable thumb drive using UNetbootin.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am trying to make a usb installed ubuntu(with persistent) unchangeable. The usb needs to use the data from the persistent casper-rw, but in the same time not be able to change the casper-rw. I have tried installing ubuntu on a SD-card, and then simply lock the SD-card. So fine so good, but it just wont bootup then - it says "Aufs mount failed".
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have tried to create a persistent live usb thumb drive using Startup Disk Creator, but have not had any luck. I have tried running Startup Disk Creator from Linux Mint 9 xfce (currently installed on my machine) as well as from live sessions of ubuntu 11.04 Beta1 and xubuntu 11.04 Beta1. When using Startup Disk Creator in Linux Mint, I am able to set the slider to choose how much reserved space I want, but when I reboot, the USB stick does not load, I get an error message about an unknown name in the file. When using the live sessions of ubuntu or xubuntu, the section with the slider to choose how much of the usb stick to devote to the persistence file is greyed out. I get the same result whether I choose the xubuntu iso or the ubuntu iso as the source disc image. I have used the same USB stick and Startup Disk Creator to make persistent live installs before - is there something about 11.04 that does not allow persistence?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am a linux newbie and want to try to run Fedora 13 from a 4Gb USB flash drive for a while until I decide to do a permanent install.My problem is that although I selected to create persistent storage using the liveusb creator, nothing is being saved after rebooting.For reference, I downloaded the 64bit version using bittorrent, and I created the live usb on windows 7.Is there some setting I must set to enable persistent storage?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was trying to install Fedora 13, on to my laptop. I have 30 GB of unallocated space in extended partition. When trying to install Fedora 13, I got stuck, as the installer says that there is no free space for installation.can convert the unallocated space into free space.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to create a combined portable Ubuntu / USB stick.For this I intend to install Ubuntu to my 16 GB USB Drive. I am going to install some rather big programs (Matlab, Maple...) and therefor, I think the 4 GB persistent space in different startup-USB creators are to small.Because of this, I want to install Ubuntu to the USB drive, to get full functionallity. Also because of the small USB Drive size, I dont want to create two different partitions. For USB Drive use, I want to be able to save files larger then 4 GB (ie. not FAT32).
How can I create a fully functional Ubuntu USB, that can also be accessed from Windows? I understand that NTFS and Ubuntu is a bad mix, FAT32 have file size restrictions, and Windows cant accesss ext3/4.I saw someone talk about installing Ubuntu using the 'install in windows' to bypass Ubuntu-NTFS problems, but the link was broken, and I could not see how it was done. Also this [URL] talked about making the home folder accessible, but the linked site is now down.
I have a persistent pendrive of Ubuntu: [URL]
It has a file where it saves the configuration of my computer: casper-rw
But if I boot this USB flash drive in another computer I would like to do it in a fresh way, that is, without loading the configuration of my computer (saved in the casper-rw file). For example, in Puppy Linux this can be done easily, just putting pfix=ram in a boot option of syslinux.cfg and selecting this option when booting.
I think this is important because I think that otherwise the Ubuntu (at least in some cases) cannot open if used in a computer different to the one where casper-rw was configured. It happens to me that I cannot run Ubuntu with my pendrive when inserted in a different computer (I think the reason is what I've said).
After setting up a persistent Lubuntu (10.10) on a 4GB SD with Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.1.8 , I started changing the passwd of the original user ubuntu , but after rebooting, I can't log in. So I resorted to hitting Ctrl+the function key that gives you a CLI, and changed the password for "ubuntu" user then tried to log on again. No success.Then I created a new user with a password, and managed to log in with this user, but it is not the same experience, the menus are lacking, and it is not possible to log on to wifi, similar problem to this user
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have the following problem. I tried to make a persistent USB Backtrack 4 r2. I followed the steps according to the instructions and did not noticed any errors.
fdisk /dev/sdb
Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-4): 1
Command (m for help): n
Command action
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I can boot from USB because when i use Unetbootin everything works fine. Although it'snot persistent in that situation. I seachered the web but i can't find the solution. I have run a script which i ran into on Sourceforge.net. The results are in the attachement. But unfortunately i am real Newbie on linux so..
I was wondering if it can be possible to boot debian from micro sd card and have it persistent. I have checked the bios of my laptop and there are options to boot from USB and HDD (and from floppy, cd, network and hard disk), but not from sd card. Would it be a problem or could there be workarounds. That is of course if the whole thing is a good idea at all.
I have already booted the laptop from USB, but I would like to use it for everyday work and USB sticking out is bound to get snapped off. Sd card on the other hand would go inside in the slot. The hard disk is dead and is a bit expensive to replace (and unnecessary in respect of the volume, I only need a couple of gb for work)
So i installed debian squeeze in virtualbox with xfce and i thought that it was persistent. when i powered down the virtual machine and started it up again later I only had the option of installing it again. Do i use save state to keep it in the installed stage? would i have to do that each time i made a change? i want to make sure so that i don't keep having to re install it.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to create a persistent live Jessie system on my 8GB USB drive.
If that matters, I'm currently on an Arch Linux system, and I partly followed what's on the relative wiki (Pages Create a new MBR for a USB stick, Manually create a USB flash installation and Install Syslinux), plus a CrunchBang post explaining how to make a persistent live USB out of any Jessie-deriving distro (like their BunsenLabs Hydrogen).
The problem is, even if Debian boots up more than fine, the system isn't persistent at all.
Here's what I did (I know some passages are redundant, but still...):
Downloaded the Cinnamon flavor of Jessie via torrentErased the old MBR
Code: Select all# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 && syncCreated a 1.1G W95 FAT32 (LBA) active partition and used the remaining space on a Linux partitionFormatted the first to FAT32 and labelled it "Debian64". Formatted the second to ext4 and labelled it "persistence"
Code: Select all# mkfs.vfat -n Debian64 /dev/sdb1
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb2 -L persistence
Mounted the first partition and the iso
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I have created live persistent usb-hdd (fat32) image, put into USB stick, but now I should create persistent live-rw partition. How this persistent partition should be formatted? Should I format with ext2, or fat32?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've created live squeeze usb-hdd and if I boot first time the udev system writes the MAC address of the network interfaces into /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.Because I use full persistence, the file is there on the next boot and I don't get network running automatically on other computers. My problem is, howto remove 70-persistent-net.rules every time during the startup?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI did horrible mistake and installed upgrade for firefox 3.6.15 via KPackageKit. There would be normally no problem but this version does not work with Q3 live Is there a way to select older version of software in KPackageKit, Synaptic or via dpkg?P.S. I don't want to install it from tar.gz2 file - I want normal installation.
View 1 Replies View Relatedlive usb media does not let me to to save files and make modifications to live operating system that will persist after a reboot
I made the bootable stick with the liveusb creator at https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ using an iso image of f10 live cd, a flash drive with 2 Gb capacity and a paersistent storage setting of 200 Mb
I changed root=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXi-do-not-remember-XXXXXXXXXXXX to
On the flash drive to make it bootable
I installed gparted on live operating system and when i rebooted gparted was not installed.
i was writing a .img file to my usb stick with ImageWriter, but it didn't seem to do anything so i clicked the close gtk button and pulled the stick out of my pc. now my pc gives my an when i try to open the stick. is there any way to fix this. I can use win xp pro, win xp media center, win 7 starter, ubuntu 9.10 and ubuntu 10.04
View 5 Replies View RelatedLogical Memory Space of 4GB is divided in to 3GB User Space and 1GB Kernel Space. Always. Correct?
1. How can we change it? (just changing value of PAGE_OFFSET is okay?)
2. If system have only 256MB of memory (embedded system) and suppose Kernel Modules eat away all the memory during boot. User space will be left will no memory. Is this case possible?