Hi,

Has anyone else had issues with creating a persistent LiveSlak USB stick? I can use "dd" to make a bootable USB stick that boots just fine (and retains no user data), but when I use "iso2usb.sh" to make a fully functional installation, the stick won't boot... it just goes right into the normal system boot. I do specify USB at boot time. I've tried the prebuilt Plasma64 and xfce64 ISOs with this.

Thanks for any advice!

TheDude76

Have you tried another usb flash drive?

If you don't have to don't use "iso2usb.sh" to perform the installation. Use the Live USB drive that you make with the dd command and go through the install process.

Here's what I do:

That normally works right away for me and boots w/0 fail.

https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:liveslak

Here's more documentation on the usage of that script with examples.
https://docs.slackware.com/slackware...t_to_usb_stick

I've never tried using the slackware live.sh so wait and see what other members have to say on that. There might be another way to go about it.

Hi Ztcoracat,

Thanks! As far as those steps 1-5 that you posted... that creates a USB flash drive that retains persistent data?

No, steps 1-5 makes the .iso of the os loaded onto the usb flash drive and forces it to boot up Live so that you can install the os.

That iso script to usb seems a little tricky. I was reading through the examples last night.

Yeah but he's already familiar with dd, he wants a USB with persistence.

As an aside, with dd I've never bothered with mkfs - even after dd'ing a BSD distro which Linux then won't read the USB from. I use the same stick, with "dd if=Path_of_linux_distro of=/dev/sdx BS=1M" and as soon as it's finished I can read it again.

If the documentation in that link I posted in post #2 doesn't help with that script I don't know what else there is to try.

Any idea's tazza?

any errors when you ran the script and what options did you use? efi or msdos system?

Unfortunately no - and I didn't mean to sound contrary in my previous post so sorry if I did so (I don't have the best way with words) just pointing out dd isn't his problem.

Hi, yes I have had problems booting live-plasma5 since it exceeded all my good old 4G USBs capacities. Sorry I was too lazy to speak up until now, didn't want to bug AlienBob 'cause it seemed to be working everywhere else just fine.

I finally bought a new 16G thumb drive and still can't boot from USB. What does work consistently are Willy's MSB builds, dd or iso2usb.sh. Setup2hd ran great on my netbook and I ran MSB for a bit, but the 600px high screen is a bummer. I like stock fluxbox on there now.

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Oops right after I hit Save realized that command did not include Persistence, but I did try that option too, it is my preference. Honest. I don't have a log.

And now I am posting from same Sandisk Cruzer 16G Plasma5-live, my PEBCAK probably. I had installed from MATE live to second partition on this PC and so iso2usb.sh failed? Not sure. I used a simple dd to copy iso to USB the second time, that is what's working right now. In the meantime testing stuff I also messed up lilo on my first drive containing 14.2 and so 99 99 99 here I am rescuing myself from myself. I do need to read the fine Liveslak docs again before commenting. Thanks.

Yeah, no worries:-

I figured dd isn't the problem either.

If you have any errors TheDude76 please post them for colorpurple.

We could look up the errors and see if that leads us to a solution.

Thanks for the informatio EYo:-

Could you post a link to Willys Builds?

Sure, but it is on the wiki too so this is redundant. All the builds are available from there ...

https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:liveslak

My problem was definitely due to having installed a previous liveslak to another drive, mounted by fstab under /mnt/sdb3, but I don't quite understand yet why iso2usb.sh fails to create a bootable USB with that, haven't had time to read through the script and docs. Thanks for giving me something to do when it cools off Cheers.

Thanks!