Making a live-usb with persistence from scratch using the antiX live-usb-maker (gui) tool. Thanks to Mrs. Oracle for joining in! forum thread here forum.mxlinux....
What's the other video that you mentioned in this one and do you have any on how to do a remastersys so that you can then go and upgrade to another kernel or fall back to one if it's necessary?
I followed all the instructions in this video. The only deviation was I chose "encrypt" in the installer as an extra layer of security. I then created a "test.txt" file on the desktop. When I shut down and booted back up, the text file was not there. Did I do something wrong? Why isn't desktop persistent? Thanks!
The Live USB maker menu I get is completely different than the one you show here. Not to mention the advanced options offered. What is the deal with that?
The new version doesn't work for me as I've tried several different ways and each one fails, tried to clone, fail. Tried to respin a new thumb drive and it doesn't matter where I try to pull the .iso file from it fails, be it the SSD or another thumb drive. I do have a nice 3.0 150MB/s 32GB Samsung just for this. I tried your settings just like in the vid and each time I do it usually doesn't create either of the persistant storage areas on the drive 99% of the time. I do have a (TPM) Trusted Platform Module on this lappy and have had issues with it in the past.
Thanks for the great video... I want to make a persistent live mx 19.3 USING THE WHOLE 128 gb... everything I try doesn't allow me to use the whole drive... please help
So for a newbie who is concerned about kernel or system updates ‘breaking my computer’, is the best way to back up the whole system to make a live usb with all current software installed on computer also backed up/installed on live usb with persistence too?
Its certainly a good way to go. I usually run a system live w/ persistence and install all my apps FIRST before installing on a PC. The apps will carry over and then I just file that stick away. I will also occasionally do an update on that stick and a remaster (I got a video for that) to reclaim the live persistence space.
runwiththedolphin Does it not have luks full disk encryption option in MX17? I only saw a home folder encryption option, but does that mean all your personal data and files are safe while the rest of the system isn’t really worth securing?, plus since the whole disk isn’t encrypted you don’t get a performance lag due to system constantly encrypting and decrypting everything? I’ve been trying to decide if/what encryption option/s to use (I’m fairly new to computers in general) I’ve got luks full disk encryption in Ubuntu Mate currently, and I was planning to use Bitlocker in windows 10 pro that I paid extra to get just for that feature, but I don’t have a damn TPM on my motherboard to use Bitlocker haha another reason I’m thinking win10 was a waste of money! (But I want to learn basic windows skills too) then I discovered that both the win10 ssd and Ubuntu Mate ssd (Samsung)are both capable of hardware encryption which is the most secure and highest speed option of all anyway but now I need to learn to back up everything as applying hardware encryption wipes the drive in the process After thinking about it maybe just encrypting only the home folder is enough, do you recommend luks for individual folders or VeraCrypt in Linux? Also, would any software that is designed to be installed for ‘ubuntu, Debian and mint’ also have the same compatibility and terminal commands in MX17? Thanks for any suggestions
the state of encryption is this: live-usb systems can be full-disk encrypted. but for now the only encryption we support in the installer is the user home folder. the home folder encryption in the installer uses encryptfs, similar to what ubuntu 16.04 did. I'm not an encryption expert so I'm afraid I do not have a recommendation, however I know several folks in the mx forum use veracrypt. debian software (for debian stretch) should work fine in MX, but ubuntu/mint stuff YMMV.
this is the version I use. My wife uses the pink one, and I have the blue one. they are quit good. I also have a sandisk ultra fit that did some of the antiX 17 videos with, but I don't like it in my main laptop ...it gets super dangerously hot. It works OK in my low-power machine though. doesn't get quite as hot.
those are the first pny's I've owned in years. I'm told the sandisk cruzer glides USB3 version (not the fits) are good as well. If you try those, make sure to get the USB3 version, as many many stores are selling the USB2 version side by side with the USB3 version.
yes. I find it easier to use an iso with the same kernel as a regular live-usb. In that scenario, you can start boot from the iso, and hand off to the live-usb with the from=usb boot parameter. but you can do what you said as well.
@@runwiththedolphin What options shall I use? And why do you prefer otherwise? Because you can keep around 2 gigabytes worth of USB storage space without the live OS on it.
We don't support a rolling release model. However, leaving our test repo enabled will bring in a lot more updates than just the stable. You could try enabling the debian testing repos, updating your kernel to a debian testing version, and modify your repo sources to match. I would think that would not be for the faint of heart. As with any endeavor involving enabling debian testing, expect breakages, especially this early in the buster dev cycle. More so for use than straight debian because of our init system configuration and our live tools may be problematic.
I want to make a persistent USB ( 128GB , nowdays is not so expensive ) with MX-23.3_x64 KDE, repeat KDE spin. ISO image downloaded , written with RUFUS on Windows on a 2nd USB stick. Boot the laptop from Live USB ( the 128GB / blank , is inserted on the other USB port. ) From here how to proceed ? - just a resume not details. Thanks in advance
why not just use rufus to directly go from windows to the stick. but really just use the live-usb-maker tool on MX to make a full featured live usb on the 128 gb stick.
@@runwiththedolphin I am saying about making a persistent MX Linux ... And by the way, those MX Tools, with submenu of "make root , home persistence" is usless, or I don't know what to do ...
@@celdepescaun39 which is what this video explains. the live system will create its own persistence files, you just need to select the mode at boot time.
@@runwiththedolphin Thanks, so this was the trick ... Previously I tried from the MX Tools submenu, but after I booted the live usb, so you should select at the first boot, going to test this...
I call bullshit! I've tried this with 16 different USB sticks, all 32Gig or higher. I've followed not only this video to the letter, but several other videos as well. NONE WORK! It refuses to save the settings and remain persistent. I've been at this for two days with , obviously, zero success.
sorry for your luck. I assure you it works fine. this particular video is out-of-date, but the basic methodology is the same. make a usb stick, enable a persistence option, persistence is created on first boot of the stick. specifying the persistence option on subsequent boots will detect the existing persistence file and will utilize it.
so there was no F5 menu in VB? are you using a UEFI Virtualbox? Under UEFI, the options are in the "Custom" menu option, becuause the UEFI boot loader doesn't support the F key menus.
"MX Linux" Operating System has been and is remaining as my rock production business processing work engine! www.maketecheasier.com/mx-linux-review/ Keep "MS Titanic Success Windoze 10", access the boot menu and choose your USB FLASH memory thumb stick drive (Super Fast USB 3 Kingston HyperX up to 512 GB). Your first experiment can be with a cheap 16GB USB 2 memory thumb stick drive. WORLD TRAVEL ONLY with our memory thumb stick drive in your purse!
Would be amazing to see windows 10 running in virtualbox on an MX persistence usb! Literally booting a windows 10 system on usb! has it been done? I assume more than 20gb would be needed for MX, virtual box and windows 10 too? It would shake the windows world :)
Yes I imagine it would work. I've run other VMs off my live usb. Just need a large enough Usb. I wouldn't store the VMs inside the persistence files though.
runwiththedolphin what about running ‘Team Viewer’ remote access software between windows powerful gaming desktop pc and a Linux usb with persistence? Wouldn’t that work as being the similar as running Windows on a usb plus close to desktop hardware power? Might need a VPN to secure the wireless data if away from home network? I assume VPN would need to be installed on remote laptop for it to work? would this be easier and less resource demanding for cheap mobile laptop than running VM’s on the usb? or could even run Linux as desktop host and windows in vm and stream both via team viewer to portable pocket persistence usb that can be moved between any computer...? I’m new to this stuff 🤔
If when creating persistence rootfs & homefs files of greater than 4gb, should it be ensured that the Live-USB stick be formatted in the NTFS scheme, as fat32 has a file-size maximum of 4gb ?
If you are using our live-usb-maker tool, it creates ext4 partitions for the system partition and fat32 for the UEFI boot partition. ext4 not only supports greater file sizes, but also supports "sparse" file creation, so a multi-GB persistence file takes seconds to make.
Thanks for the clarification/information. I'm new to both Linux and Live-USB based OS. I was half hoping to be able to be able to make a multi-bootUSB stick married with at least one LiveUSB-OS, but i'm starting to think it's going to be a fruitless engagement... bit.ly/boo--who :)
Hi thanks for the video. My usb stick is 16gb, I use rufus on windows to make live usb mx 19.4 and it works. But I can't make root persistent more than 4gb, even on custom size there's no more than 4gb choices available. Is it because the format of usb stick fat32(vfat)? Should I use ext4 format? And how make it work? Thank you, again.
yes you should use ext4 format to get a file larger than 4GB. if you use the "toram" boot option, you can clone a running live system back onto the same stick. I have a video on the process. you can also just use a second stick, the system can clone a running live system onto a second stick. or just use the first running live system to make the second stick from an iso. our live-usb-maker can handle all that, and does the formatting for you (defaults to ext4).
Hi! I downlaoaded the latest version and the persistent boot asks me about making a swap partition on to the usb. I assigned 1.5 gb to it. Is this necessary? I plan to run my usb on at least 8gb ram desktops. Thanks!
honestly I tend not to use swap with my live usb. even on 2GB machines. but it could be nice for truly ram straped machines that antiX tries to work with.
Is there a newer version of this video for MX-19? I'm on Linux-Mint-19.3 with the latest appimage of linux live usb maker and it looks nothing like the one in this video. It won't boot. :( Okay! So I tried it again with the other installation option and it booted that time so then what does that mean and what do I need to do to be able to create and boot into the full featured installation?
there is not but one is planned. the new gui came out after the mx17 video was produced, although the options are similar. the new gui actually has more.
@@runwiththedolphin Update. I just made a bootable flash drive with the dd option and then booted into that and then tried making the fully featured usb drive on there and it still won't boot into it. UEFI is enabled and Fast Boot is disabled, too.
Holy crap, why is this so difficult? I am on a Windows machine and just want to make a live USB to test MX Linux and it seems it's not possible. Please someone tell me I am wrong
Does choosing persist_all/root/home over persist_static, mean that the USB stick is subjected to fewer write/erase cycles and therefor a lower failure rate ?
In theory yes. with the non-static options, the rootfs file is rsync'd into RAM at boot, and then rsync'd again at logout/shutdown/ or on-demand. The homefs file is not stored in RAM, which given the size of data files that can be in there is a good safety factor. The real benefit is performance of the running system, as its fairly quick with the rootfs persistence file stored in RAM. with the "toram" boot option, you can also load the base read-only linuxfs filesystem into ram as well, for a very fast experience. However, the tradeoff is of course you need a lot of ram to do that, and potentially a lot of ram to load the larger persistence files we allow.
I saw the 'toram' option and initially thought about selecting it, especially as i had already decided on 'persistence_static'. But had second thoughts as i'm running a 2009 desktop with 4GB RAM, 16GB sandisk usb2.0 stick. This reply is from the MX environment the others were from Win10, so success in it starting-up, but when I reached the rootfs selection, I chose option 1 (default 4GB), then it error'd out almost immediately after trying to create it. It then asked for password creation, on finishing that section successfully, it continued straight thru to the desktop environment without asking about the creation of the homefs file. I'm now starting to feel that this whole vegas-wedding thing was a bigger mistake than mount rushmore :/ Is it perhaps because I should of asked 'Live-USB maker' to be best-man instead of Rufus ?
Boot without the persistence options enabled. You can delete the files if they aren't in use from /live/boot-dev/antix . I think there is also an option to remove unused files in mx-remastercc
I am having a problem in MX 17 the remaster tool is not merging linuxfs and rootfs there is more than enough space on disk , I am using latest updated remaster from synaptic pac man. Appreciate your help on this one , the system just hangs while doing mksquashfs
Remaster needs quite a bit of space to work. It creates a duplicate filesystem to keep your data safe. So you need enough for the rootfs, the linuxfs, and the new combined system.
@@runwiththedolphin there is 1.5-2GB of free RAM and approx 1.7GB free space on rootfs. And the disk has 8GB of free space. The persistent works fine but as you know it can't extended rootfs size more than RAM size so I had to merge it with linuxfs ,it hangs while mksquashfs executing , I know that linuxfs is squashfs while rootfs,homefs are img file with ext4 file system mouted while system starts ,I have seen same concept with magisk.img on Android base. I can't get debug info while it executing to solve problem or if someone had same issue and solved.
@@runwiththedolphin all I want to know from you is that did you used remaster on mx17.1 and it didn't failed for you once and got workedout fine? And do you know anyway to get the log of remaster, especially after hard reboot ? I am now trying the remaster.sh script I found inside MX ,yet to be tested but I really want to know your experience 😊
yes, although I think you have to update the kernel manually. the 4.15 kernel is in the mx-packageinstaller->Popular Apps->Kernels list. You can also update the kernel on the live-USB with live-usb-kernel-updater. I've got a video on that as well. I used antix on the video, but the same holds true on MX.
Complete garbage. Reformat worthy. Runs very slow. Clicked on Firefox and went for a beer came back and Firefox still hadn't opened. You got this ass backwards.
Thanks Dave for making the vid as requested, very helpful one. Mr+Mrs. Oracle have a great Happy Gnew Year 2kl8 :)
Cheers ShaTer! HNY!
Hi Dolphin, We need to see more of Mrs. Oracle. She asks the pertinent questions & keeps it real... Cutey! ;-)
Thanks! I think she will be back...
F5 is best options I have ever seen, I had problems with knoppix ,
And snapshot, remaster iso is also awesome
Brilliant! Hello Mrs Oracle. You did not sound like a nut, you were great.
anticapitalista
Thanks :) -MO
great partner
I like her.
Nice video!! Happy New Year to you and Mrs Oracle!!
HNY Colin!
Thank you.
I have watched a lot of yt lately but this one
..s a keeper !!!!
Great Video and Happy New Year.
thanks for the video, very useful.
My USB persistence is slow
¿How do i make it faster?
How ar you going to upgrade a Live-USB install for example MX17 to MX18? Thanks.
assuming mx18 is still stretch-based, I intend to just run the updater tool ;)
Nice you decided to let the wife come onscreen. "You're so cute!" will go down in antiX history.
JD
I suspect she'll be back.
He is cute, I couldn't help it :) -MO
Thanks
What's the other video that you mentioned in this one and do you have any on how to do a remastersys so that you can then go and upgrade to another kernel or fall back to one if it's necessary?
this is a series based on mx19 but its pretty close to mx21. ua-cam.com/play/PLTRkAa6x1htVDZ2dJVyJQT8uwV0zJ5zWI.html
I followed all the instructions in this video. The only deviation was I chose "encrypt" in the installer as an extra layer of security. I then created a "test.txt" file on the desktop. When I shut down and booted back up, the text file was not there. Did I do something wrong? Why isn't desktop persistent? Thanks!
Make sure when you reboot that persistence is enabled. And save the boot options.
@@runwiththedolphin Ah, i see! It worked. How do I save the boot options so that it does this every time?
@@WesleyRTech there should be an F8 save option.
If that was your best joke DON'T give up your day job
to be fair she caught me off guard, as Mrs. Oracle often does. :)
Unfortunately, that's pretty much as good as it gets. -MO
Loved this video..What about the continued videos where should be installing video editing software on persistence setup?
I install kdenlove on my liveusb.
@@runwiththedolphin Thanks again for creating awesome content. 😃
The Live USB maker menu I get is completely different than the one you show here. Not to mention the advanced options offered. What is the deal with that?
A new version with more features was released after the creation of this video. I hadn't thought about it, but maybe its time to revisit.
The new version doesn't work for me as I've tried several different ways and each one fails, tried to clone, fail. Tried to respin a new thumb drive and it doesn't matter where I try to pull the .iso file from it fails, be it the SSD or another thumb drive. I do have a nice 3.0 150MB/s 32GB Samsung just for this.
I tried your settings just like in the vid and each time I do it usually doesn't create either of the persistant storage areas on the drive 99% of the time. I do have a (TPM) Trusted Platform Module on this lappy and have had issues with it in the past.
Thanks for the great video... I want to make a persistent live mx 19.3 USING THE WHOLE 128 gb... everything I try doesn't allow me to use the whole drive... please help
the storage space on the drive is accessible thru the live_usb_storage folder that gets created in the user's home folder.
So for a newbie who is concerned about kernel or system updates ‘breaking my computer’, is the best way to back up the whole system to make a live usb with all current software installed on computer also backed up/installed on live usb with persistence too?
Its certainly a good way to go. I usually run a system live w/ persistence and install all my apps FIRST before installing on a PC. The apps will carry over and then I just file that stick away. I will also occasionally do an update on that stick and a remaster (I got a video for that) to reclaim the live persistence space.
runwiththedolphin Does it not have luks full disk encryption option in MX17? I only saw a home folder encryption option, but does that mean all your personal data and files are safe while the rest of the system isn’t really worth securing?, plus since the whole disk isn’t encrypted you don’t get a performance lag due to system constantly encrypting and decrypting everything?
I’ve been trying to decide if/what encryption option/s to use (I’m fairly new to computers in general) I’ve got luks full disk encryption in Ubuntu Mate currently, and I was planning to use Bitlocker in windows 10 pro that I paid extra to get just for that feature, but I don’t have a damn TPM on my motherboard to use Bitlocker haha another reason I’m thinking win10 was a waste of money! (But I want to learn basic windows skills too) then I discovered that both the win10 ssd and Ubuntu Mate ssd (Samsung)are both capable of hardware encryption which is the most secure and highest speed option of all anyway but now I need to learn to back up everything as applying hardware encryption wipes the drive in the process
After thinking about it maybe just encrypting only the home folder is enough, do you recommend luks for individual folders or VeraCrypt in Linux?
Also, would any software that is designed to be installed for ‘ubuntu, Debian and mint’ also have the same compatibility and terminal commands in MX17? Thanks for any suggestions
the state of encryption is this: live-usb systems can be full-disk encrypted. but for now the only encryption we support in the installer is the user home folder. the home folder encryption in the installer uses encryptfs, similar to what ubuntu 16.04 did. I'm not an encryption expert so I'm afraid I do not have a recommendation, however I know several folks in the mx forum use veracrypt. debian software (for debian stretch) should work fine in MX, but ubuntu/mint stuff YMMV.
Can you tell us what is the exact model of USB you are using? It seems really fast for writing speeds. TIA
this is the version I use. My wife uses the pink one, and I have the blue one. they are quit good. I also have a sandisk ultra fit that did some of the antiX 17 videos with, but I don't like it in my main laptop ...it gets super dangerously hot. It works OK in my low-power machine though. doesn't get quite as hot.
Thank you! I will try to buy these, mine are so slow...
those are the first pny's I've owned in years. I'm told the sandisk cruzer glides USB3 version (not the fits) are good as well. If you try those, make sure to get the USB3 version, as many many stores are selling the USB2 version side by side with the USB3 version.
In virtual box, can the OS be booted from an iso and persistence stored on an empty thumb drive?
yes. I find it easier to use an iso with the same kernel as a regular live-usb. In that scenario, you can start boot from the iso, and hand off to the live-usb with the from=usb boot parameter. but you can do what you said as well.
@@runwiththedolphin What options shall I use? And why do you prefer otherwise? Because you can keep around 2 gigabytes worth of USB storage space without the live OS on it.
So persist all is loaded on to ram VS persist static which loads to USB drive.
for the rootfs persistence file, yes. the home persistence files (homefs) is always off the usb).
Hmm, Im not seeing any Function Key menu at the bottom after booting live USB , No F5 option for persistence, MXL 18.3 ISO
Probabky booting uefi then. Use the "customize menus" entry
How are you runwithedolphin Is a way to make MX a rolling release
We don't support a rolling release model. However, leaving our test repo enabled will bring in a lot more updates than just the stable. You could try enabling the debian testing repos, updating your kernel to a debian testing version, and modify your repo sources to match. I would think that would not be for the faint of heart. As with any endeavor involving enabling debian testing, expect breakages, especially this early in the buster dev cycle. More so for use than straight debian because of our init system configuration and our live tools may be problematic.
I want to make a persistent USB ( 128GB , nowdays is not so expensive ) with MX-23.3_x64 KDE, repeat KDE spin. ISO image downloaded , written with RUFUS on Windows on a 2nd USB stick. Boot the laptop from Live USB ( the 128GB / blank , is inserted on the other USB port. ) From here how to proceed ? - just a resume not details. Thanks in advance
why not just use rufus to directly go from windows to the stick. but really just use the live-usb-maker tool on MX to make a full featured live usb on the 128 gb stick.
@@runwiththedolphin I am saying about making a persistent MX Linux ... And by the way, those MX Tools, with submenu of "make root , home persistence" is usless, or I don't know what to do ...
@@celdepescaun39 which is what this video explains. the live system will create its own persistence files, you just need to select the mode at boot time.
@@runwiththedolphin Thanks, so this was the trick ... Previously I tried from the MX Tools submenu, but after I booted the live usb, so you should select at the first boot, going to test this...
I call bullshit!
I've tried this with 16 different USB sticks, all 32Gig or higher. I've followed not only this video to the letter, but several other videos as well. NONE WORK! It refuses to save the settings and remain persistent. I've been at this for two days with , obviously, zero success.
sorry for your luck. I assure you it works fine. this particular video is out-of-date, but the basic methodology is the same. make a usb stick, enable a persistence option, persistence is created on first boot of the stick. specifying the persistence option on subsequent boots will detect the existing persistence file and will utilize it.
I used that with the defaults but there was no persistence and I didn't see an option for it. Latest MX running in a virtualbox.
so there was no F5 menu in VB? are you using a UEFI Virtualbox? Under UEFI, the options are in the "Custom" menu option, becuause the UEFI boot loader doesn't support the F key menus.
"MX Linux" Operating System has been and is remaining as my rock production business processing work engine! www.maketecheasier.com/mx-linux-review/
Keep "MS Titanic Success Windoze 10", access the boot menu and choose your USB FLASH memory thumb stick drive (Super Fast USB 3 Kingston HyperX up to 512 GB). Your first experiment can be with a cheap 16GB USB 2 memory thumb stick drive.
WORLD TRAVEL ONLY with our memory thumb stick drive in your purse!
Would be amazing to see windows 10 running in virtualbox on an MX persistence usb! Literally booting a windows 10 system on usb! has it been done? I assume more than 20gb would be needed for MX, virtual box and windows 10 too? It would shake the windows world :)
Yes I imagine it would work. I've run other VMs off my live usb. Just need a large enough Usb. I wouldn't store the VMs inside the persistence files though.
runwiththedolphin what about running ‘Team Viewer’ remote access software between windows powerful gaming desktop pc and a Linux usb with persistence? Wouldn’t that work as being the similar as running Windows on a usb plus close to desktop hardware power? Might need a VPN to secure the wireless data if away from home network? I assume VPN would need to be installed on remote laptop for it to work? would this be easier and less resource demanding for cheap mobile laptop than running VM’s on the usb? or could even run Linux as desktop host and windows in vm and stream both via team viewer to portable pocket persistence usb that can be moved between any computer...? I’m new to this stuff 🤔
If when creating persistence rootfs & homefs files of greater than 4gb, should it be ensured that the Live-USB stick be formatted in the NTFS scheme, as fat32 has a file-size maximum of 4gb ?
If you are using our live-usb-maker tool, it creates ext4 partitions for the system partition and fat32 for the UEFI boot partition. ext4 not only supports greater file sizes, but also supports "sparse" file creation, so a multi-GB persistence file takes seconds to make.
Thanks for the clarification/information.
I'm new to both Linux and Live-USB based OS.
I was half hoping to be able to be able to make a multi-bootUSB stick married with at least one LiveUSB-OS, but i'm starting to think it's going to be a fruitless engagement... bit.ly/boo--who :)
Hi thanks for the video. My usb stick is 16gb, I use rufus on windows to make live usb mx 19.4 and it works. But I can't make root persistent more than 4gb, even on custom size there's no more than 4gb choices available. Is it because the format of usb stick fat32(vfat)? Should I use ext4 format? And how make it work? Thank you, again.
yes you should use ext4 format to get a file larger than 4GB. if you use the "toram" boot option, you can clone a running live system back onto the same stick. I have a video on the process. you can also just use a second stick, the system can clone a running live system onto a second stick. or just use the first running live system to make the second stick from an iso. our live-usb-maker can handle all that, and does the formatting for you (defaults to ext4).
Hi! I downlaoaded the latest version and the persistent boot asks me about making a swap partition on to the usb. I assigned 1.5 gb to it. Is this necessary? I plan to run my usb on at least 8gb ram desktops. Thanks!
honestly I tend not to use swap with my live usb. even on 2GB machines. but it could be nice for truly ram straped machines that antiX tries to work with.
Is there a newer version of this video for MX-19? I'm on Linux-Mint-19.3 with the latest appimage of linux live usb maker and it looks nothing like the one in this video. It won't boot. :( Okay! So I tried it again with the other installation option and it booted that time so then what does that mean and what do I need to do to be able to create and boot into the full featured installation?
there is not but one is planned. the new gui came out after the mx17 video was produced, although the options are similar. the new gui actually has more.
@@runwiththedolphin Okay! Yeah! I noticed that. I just updated my comment a few times with the new results.
@@runwiththedolphin Update. I just made a bootable flash drive with the dd option and then booted into that and then tried making the fully featured usb drive on there and it still won't boot into it. UEFI is enabled and Fast Boot is disabled, too.
Holy crap, why is this so difficult? I am on a Windows machine and just want to make a live USB to test MX Linux and it seems it's not possible. Please someone tell me I am wrong
use rufus when coming from windows. I've got another video on that on the channel in the mx19 playlist
Does choosing persist_all/root/home over persist_static, mean that the USB stick is subjected to fewer write/erase cycles and therefor a lower failure rate ?
In theory yes. with the non-static options, the rootfs file is rsync'd into RAM at boot, and then rsync'd again at logout/shutdown/ or on-demand. The homefs file is not stored in RAM, which given the size of data files that can be in there is a good safety factor. The real benefit is performance of the running system, as its fairly quick with the rootfs persistence file stored in RAM. with the "toram" boot option, you can also load the base read-only linuxfs filesystem into ram as well, for a very fast experience. However, the tradeoff is of course you need a lot of ram to do that, and potentially a lot of ram to load the larger persistence files we allow.
I saw the 'toram' option and initially thought about selecting it, especially as i had already decided on 'persistence_static'. But had second thoughts as i'm running a 2009 desktop with 4GB RAM, 16GB sandisk usb2.0 stick.
This reply is from the MX environment the others were from Win10, so success in it starting-up, but when I reached the rootfs selection, I chose option 1 (default 4GB), then it error'd out almost immediately after trying to create it. It then asked for password creation, on finishing that section successfully, it continued straight thru to the desktop environment without asking about the creation of the homefs file.
I'm now starting to feel that this whole vegas-wedding thing was a bigger mistake than mount rushmore :/
Is it perhaps because I should of asked 'Live-USB maker' to be best-man instead of Rufus ?
Hi! How to remove Live Persistence from mx linux 19.2 live usb??
Boot without the persistence options enabled. You can delete the files if they aren't in use from /live/boot-dev/antix . I think there is also an option to remove unused files in mx-remastercc
Thanks. I'll try. It is important for me that this disappears from the boot options menu.
@@MINYAD1 what I said will not remove the options. They just won't be used.
I am having a problem in MX 17 the remaster tool is not merging linuxfs and rootfs there is more than enough space on disk , I am using latest updated remaster from synaptic pac man.
Appreciate your help on this one , the system just hangs while doing mksquashfs
Remaster needs quite a bit of space to work. It creates a duplicate filesystem to keep your data safe. So you need enough for the rootfs, the linuxfs, and the new combined system.
@@runwiththedolphin there is 1.5-2GB of free RAM and approx 1.7GB free space on rootfs.
And the disk has 8GB of free space.
The persistent works fine but as you know it can't extended rootfs size more than RAM size so I had to merge it with linuxfs ,it hangs while mksquashfs executing , I know that linuxfs is squashfs while rootfs,homefs are img file with ext4 file system mouted while system starts ,I have seen same concept with magisk.img on Android base.
I can't get debug info while it executing to solve problem or if someone had same issue and solved.
@@runwiththedolphin all I want to know from you is that did you used remaster on mx17.1 and it didn't failed for you once and got workedout fine? And do you know anyway to get the log of remaster, especially after hard reboot ?
I am now trying the remaster.sh script I found inside MX ,yet to be tested but I really want to know your experience 😊
@@mbk0mbk yes. The mx-remastercc has the front end.
@@runwiththedolphin wait what I know that, I am asking did you got same error as I do ? Did you read my comment completely?
One more quick question..Can we directly update to mx17.1 on the go or a fresh install.. I know I'm being a noobish here. 😅
yes, although I think you have to update the kernel manually. the 4.15 kernel is in the mx-packageinstaller->Popular Apps->Kernels list. You can also update the kernel on the live-USB with live-usb-kernel-updater. I've got a video on that as well. I used antix on the video, but the same holds true on MX.
Complete garbage. Reformat worthy. Runs very slow. Clicked on Firefox and went for a beer came back and Firefox still hadn't opened. You got this ass backwards.
glad you enjoyed it :/