USB Drive with Fedora installed. Loses new setting and programs on restart
 

I succefully installed Fedora 16 onto a pen drive. When I go into System Setting and making changes, or I use Add/Remove Software to install new software the settings are changed and the new software runs.

However when I log off and close down or restart all setting and new programs disapear!!!! so when I restart the system is just like new. Even Firefox loses its history.

Confused!!!

https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/

Install the live usb creator. Make another USB drive with it with persistence.

Thanks.

The way I installed the system was the same as you are suggesting. I will try it again though.

Sorry I misunderstood the use of persistent, (I still find it confusing!). I have a 16 gig pendrive so I will set the persistent to 16 gig

Did this now getting this message:

Download failed: IOError: <urlopen error [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed>

Download Fedora 16 from Fedoras site to your hardrive. Then use the Browse button to grab the Iso. I suggest doing a md5sum check also of downloaded iso to check for corrupted download before installing to usb.

I would check size of Iso in properties first. Then subtract size of iso from persistent.
I use AntiX which we have our own antix2usb.sh that makes persistent usb drives of only AntiX.So I have no experience with what I am suggesting. I am a .deb guy instead of a .rpm kind of guy.

Thank you for your help. I did manage to get it working and then read up a bit more on Live and Persistent.

I had not realised the limitation of "Live" installations. I wanted Linux for the processing of astronomical images using one specific programme not available for windows. I had not realised how persistent worked that "Live" does not allow delete of temp and other files.

As I will be processing 1 gig a night, the installation will be no use after a week!

I will now look to see how it is possible to do a normal installation of Linux to a pendrive.

Although new to Linux I used to work with Unix systems 30 years ago for 10 years with a fraction of the storage capacity of a pendrive.

Thanks again

It's not Fedora. But check My blog on page 2 in this forum for a old how to I made for

It'll be titled
Install AntiX 8.2 Final on External Flash Drive on Asus EEE 900

It will just give you a general idea on what what pitfalls may arise and what
snafus to jump over.

If you've got a 16GB pen drive, you might be best served by doing a full installation of Fedora 16 to it. I've been doing full installations of the LXDE spin to 4GB and larger flash drives for a while. No worries about corrupting the persistence file.