Live USB and installation?

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Hi Linux Wizards!

I created a Live USB stick and run the installation on the very same stick. In my Linux environment (the laptop I used) the booting was no problem.
I inserted the stick in another (Windows) Laptop and the boot up started as expected with the Linux decision tree. Sadly it did not complete (FIFO error).

What is the correct way of creating a stick which I can use on any USB bootable computer?

I want to have it synchronised with my Linux Laptop, so when I take the stick I can access my mails and files and work along as if I was on my own machine.

Isn’t it required to install Linux on the USB when it is a Live CD?

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On 2015-07-13 11:56, NoGeek wrote:
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> Hi Linux Wizards!
>
> I created a Live USB stick and run the installation on the very same
> stick.

If you place the live install image in a USB stick, you boot it to
install Linux on a /different/ stick. Never the same one.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))

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How did you create the stick. DO NOT use any boot helper programs openSUSE does not need them and they break the boot. make only a binary copy to the device not a partition on the device

The Live USB is persistent. ie it will run and anything you install/save stays

https://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick

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Hi Carlos,

Thanks, for this information. How do i create a USB that contains my Linux and data/apps for use on other (mainly Windows) computers then.
Do I install on my USB (using a Live CD), or do I use the Live USB and add somehow (and how) the data/apps?

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On 2015-07-13 17:06, NoGeek wrote:
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> robin_listas;2719371 Wrote:
>> On 2015-07-13 11:56, NoGeek wrote:
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>> If you place the live install image in a USB stick, you boot it to
>> install Linux on a /different/ stick. Never the same one.
>>
>>
>
> Hi Carlos,
>
> Thanks, for this information. How do i create a USB that contains my
> Linux and data/apps for use on other (mainly Windows) computers then.
> Do I install on my USB (using a Live CD), or do I use the Live USB and
> add somehow (and how) the data/apps?

Not trivial.

You need first a DVD, or a DVD on USB stick for installation. And the
full DVD, not the kde/gnome live images.

You boot that, and choose to install onto another USB stick, using
appropriate options (that’s the tricky part). In particular, be careful
on where boot files and grub is placed.

Then, besides the normal Linux partitions (swap, root, home) you need
another /data partition, made in fat or ntfs. It is this one the only
one that you will be able to read/write from Windows.

Notice that Linux on a usb flash stick is slow, specially on write
operations. And that usb sticks don’t last long under this usage. I
would rather use a small rotating disk, or alternatively, a flash disk
(SSD).

Alternatively, you could simply use two sticks: one with the live
gnome/kde/xfce system, and another to store data and share it with
Windows. Or directly write the data to the host machine hard disk. Far
more simple, but less customizable (you can not update the lives).

You could consider creating your own stick in susestudio…

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))

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[QUOTE=robin_listas;2719406]On 2015-07-13 17:06, NoGeek wrote:
Cheeres, great help as usual! Thanks!