So I really like openSUSE so far, although I’ve only had it for a few hours. I installed the live KDE version to a usb stick. However, I need some persistent storage, and I am 1) not too experienced with terminal, although I would like to be and 2) Lacking a disc drive (corrupted windows registry, doesnt read that the drive is there). so my question is, if I have already installed openSUSE, can I make some persistence with a startup menu or something similar to creating persistence with Knoppix 6.7.1?
You now created a KDE live USB stick? And want to perform a real install to a USB stick/disk? If this is what you want, it’s possible, but you have to be careful. If you take the wrong path, the machine won’t boot without the USB device connected.
Not exactly. I would rather not have to reinstall. I just want to make my current install persistent. I also only have one usb stick. My disc drive works in linux, however, so if I need to reinstall I could make a live cd, then use that to reinstall to the usb. I’m running openSUSE 12.2 if that makes a difference.
On 2012-10-16 12:56, apache1649 wrote:
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> Not exactly. I would rather not have to reinstall. I just want to make
> my current install persistent.
The live CD, even if it runs from the usb, has an install option. It is
a new install, not a copy from your usb configs.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Problem is, he has only one USB device.
@OP: yep, you could boot from the CD, install to the USB device, taking care that all of the bootloader is installed on the USB device, not on the internal disk.
On 2012-10-16 16:26, Knurpht wrote:
> Problem is, he has only one USB device.
I thought he wanted to install on top of the broken Windows, in the
system HD.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Ok, so I got a CD. Now if I install it to the cd from the usb, can I make a persistent install without having to pass in “kiwi_hybridpersistent=yes” at boot? Because that destroyed my install. I will literally barely have enough time to make the cd before it becomes totally unusable.