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Originally Posted by yancek
It's not necessary to devote an entire drive, it depends upon how you create the USB. You could put the 'live' iso on a drive, create your 'casper-rw' or 'home-rw' persistent and create an additional partition to use for backups or specifically for other files (pictures, music) you want.
Persistent 'live' usbs are disussed at the lik below which is specific to 'Lubuntu' but applies to Ubuntu also. The person who initiated the discussion 'sudodus' is also the person who created the mkusb software which is excellent for this purpose. The 2nd link below is to the site for mkusb which should be in your Ubuntu repositories. The site explains how to install mkusb and how to use it. It's as complete and easy to use as any software of this type I have seen or used.
https://discourse.lubuntu.me/t/add-a...txt-cfg/1039/5
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Thank you. That is the kind of guidance I was looking for.
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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859
Rufus is another windows program that will put a live iso onto a usb with the option to create a persistent partition. https://rufus.ie/en
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I used it to create the first USB stick with Ubuntu on it. At the time I did not know I needed to do anything special for persistence; I have learned about that. I have also found Puppy Linux and used Lick to install that onto a USB stick. Lick is amazingly easy; it is almost as simple as downloading it, executing, fill in a few questions and go. It is capable of downloading everything else.
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Originally Posted by enigma9o7
You can install linux onto a usb hard drive (or pen drive, etc) if you want, pretty much the same method as installing to an internal ide or sata drive. Of course you cannot install to the installation media, so if you're installing from cd/dvd no worries; if installing from usb, you'll obviously need another usb drive to install to.
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I think that helps. If I understand you then most instructions for creating a USB stick with Linux on it does not do that. So I think this is guiding me in the direction I was interested in.
