Hi I created a live USB stick following the instructions at
<http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick> installing
openSUSE-11.2-KDE4-LiveCD-x86_64-iso and booting a Motion LE1700.
openSUSE works great but any file I create is lost after
I reboot. I created the second partition with the script
listed the instructions.
Is there any anything else to do to make the live system mount
the second partition?
Thanks for any suggestion.
Richard
You need to set up persistent storage on the usb device. Googleing for “linux usb persistent storage” will bring up lots of information.
So, I need to run Install after booting Suse. I did start
the install program (Yast). However I am very much afraid
of that program since it makes a lot of suggestions to
reuse the Windows partitions on hard disk /dev/sda and
I don’t want to touch in any way to sda.
The install offers me no option to map to /dev/sdb which is
my USB key.
So I would need some advice on how to safely use Yast to setup
the virtual partition on /dev/sdb and NOT touching to sda at all.
I just can’t afford to damage the Windows installation at this point.
I looked at
<http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-suse-installation-from-linux/>.
That says to follow the instructions in ‘Install’.
This is where I am stuck right now.
Thanks
Richard
Those are just suggestions. You must override the suggested partitioning. I mean how can the installer know what you want to do? It is simply acting to install Suse in a default manner. You want to install in a nonstandard way.
I also would like to point out that a memory stick is NOT the same as a disk drive even a SSD. They are in general very slow to write (reads are relatively fast) and they ware out because they only can be erased about 10K times (any data that is rewritten must be erased first). So it is a good idea to keep any parts of the files system that may have cache or other high rewrite areas like swap in the RAM disk ie not persistent. So you must really understand what data you want to be persistent to get reasonable performance. If you make everything persistent then you are going to get very slow performance and a quickly dead memory stick.
I see. Thanks very much. I will need to do some more reading
and do some experiments.
I agree that a USB key is not a replacement for a hard disk
or a SSD disk. In this case I wanted to see how Linux worked
on the Motion le1700 tablet PC. I works great. It just misses
handwriting recognition.
I also need a USB system as a means of rescuing from
a big mistake. A USB key with both an ISO and a writable store
has an advantage in that one can keep critical system
components up to date (for example e2fsck) without rebuilding
the whole iso image.
An old rescue disk once damaged a hard disk partition of mine
because it insisted on running e2fsck but the version of
e2fsck on the ‘iso’ image was older than the partitions it
wanted to check. There was likely some incompatibility.
By the way, I created the second partition
on the USB key so that on Linux, I get /dev/sde1 and /dev/sde2.
/dev/sde1 of course is the iso image. Now Window7 doesn’t
even see partition 2 on the USB stick.
By the way, I created the second partition
on the USB key so that on Linux, I get /dev/sde1 and /dev/sde2.
/dev/sde1 of course is the iso image. Now Window7 doesn’t
even see partition 2 on the USB stick.
Not surprised Windows ignores anything non-windows as a rule. After all it is the only OS in the Universe. :sarcastic: