- INSTALL LINUX ON USB FROM USB PERSISTENT HOW TO
- INSTALL LINUX ON USB FROM USB PERSISTENT INSTALL
- INSTALL LINUX ON USB FROM USB PERSISTENT UPDATE
INSTALL LINUX ON USB FROM USB PERSISTENT HOW TO
How to setup a USB thumbdrive with multiple install/live session options? - Linux Mint Forums Yes, you can make USB stick with Linux Mint with persistence easily using various applications.īut, a USB stick with persistence is insecure although it does allow for installing Linux Mint on other computers. Well worth the effort if you persist (no pun intended) with the tutorial and you can get it working. It's just like carrying a portable computer in my pocket! Boots fast off the USB and saves all my work, firefox keeps my bookmarks, even installed the multimedia codecs and it all worked great. although I did have an issue on the Dell PCs at work where I had to disable SECURE BOOT in the BIOS settings to be able to use it (ie use boot option UEFI boot without secure boot).īeen using it for a few days now, no trouble at all. * in STEP 4 my boot/grub folder was missing the 'themes' file he's got listed, but it works fine without it.īesides that, if you follow all the steps (including the suggestion at the end about disable Nemo feature "Automatically mount removeable media when inserted and on startup" in Nemo Preferences > Behavior) you should be fine. You can just drag them out of the archive to go into EFI/boot on the USB and then do the renaming of the 2 mentioned. , then /usr, then /share, then /refind-0.11.4, then /refind and you'll find all those items there. Inside archive manager, double click, then /. deb installer file, (as I did) just right-click, open with -> archive manager. The instructions are pretty thorough otherwise, and the omission of that step might throw some newbies off. * STEP 1 doesn't mention to apply the changes in GPARTED (using the tick button) after each step. Debian Edition (LMDE3 Cindy) does not work with this tutorial. * Make sure you use Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon ISO as per the instructions.
INSTALL LINUX ON USB FROM USB PERSISTENT UPDATE
Just an update for the OP - I did that tutorial the other day on a 64GB USB and it all works great. Will have better look tomorrow when back home. Thanks! I also just came across this tutorial. I admit I don't know enough about this stuff to be venturing into this territory but I look upon everything I do as a (very time consuming) "learning exercise". I'm suspecting that I should have prepared that 64GB USB in some kind of special way with an EFI boot partition, etc. I then had to use efibootmgr to do further tweaking to get everything back to normal. At least I know now the snapshot restore works nicely. Ended up restoring a snapshot from a couple of days earlier to get my machine running again.
INSTALL LINUX ON USB FROM USB PERSISTENT INSTALL
Unfortunately (on my machine) this approach stuffed up my EFI boot on the main machine and it would no longer boot unless I had the newly created install on the 64GB inserted. I burned LM19 ISO to a USB and booted from it, then installed LM19 to another 64GB USB. but I failed miserably and stumbled across this post in my quest to learn more.
I did this exact thing the other day at home thinking I'd be able to bring along my 64GB USB to work and use it here. I have a Mint install running on a 128GB USB.
I do not wish to lose my original OS in the process.