I have a 4GB 'ready-boost' usb stick, which is happy with lubuntu. Scandisk do make decent USB sticks, so I'd guess they would fine.
Regards, Phill. On 13 August 2013 21:16, Nio Wiklund <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-08-12 20:57, John Hupp wrote: > > On 8/11/2013 12:33 PM, John Hupp wrote: > >> I have 4GB and 8GB flash drives currently serving as Live USB drives > >> with persistence running Quantal and Saucy. For the sake of > >> troubleshooting the Flash/LightDM-login problems more invasively, I > >> would like to make another Live setup with persistence running Raring, > >> but I don't have another bigger flash drive on hand. > >> > >> But I do have several 1GB flash drives. I tried making a Live USB > >> with one of those, setting persistence storage to 100MB (via > >> UNetBootin). But when I tried to use it I kept getting > >> no-space-available sorts of errors. So I concluded that 1GB was too > >> small to serve both for the Live USB and the persistence storage. > >> True? (Though I think I observed after the fact that UNetBootin had > >> preserved some files and folders that were already on the drive, so > >> maybe I just need to try again after deleting everything or formatting.) > >> > >> I then tried to set up a Raring Live DVD with persistence using either > >> a flash drive or the internal hard drive, but so far have failed. > >> > >> In one case I used Gparted (I don't know where I was using that, since > >> I don't now find it in the installed version of Raring) to create a > >> single ext3 partition labeled casper-rw to serve as the persistence > >> storage, but that didn't work for me. > >> > >> For two other cases I began by running in a terminal: > >> dd if-/dev/zero of=casper-rw bs=1M count=768 > >> mkfs.ext3 -F casper-rw > >> Then I copied the resulting casper-rw file both to a flash drive and > >> to the hard drive, but booting with the Live disc and either of those > >> running did not result in successful persistence. > >> > >> Can anyone see what I was doing wrong? > >> > > > > I tried again to make a Live USB with persistence, all on the 1GB stick, > > this time after reformatting (FAT32) and then setting only 50MB for > > persistence in UNetBootin. And it did have persistence (as in my > > earlier attempt), but 50MB doesn't seem to be enough to do much. Trying > > to Reload Synaptic, it again yielded the "no space left on the device" > > error. > > > > I also tried again to get to a workable Live DVD with persistence on a > > USB flash drive. In Gparted, I deleted the existing partition, created > > a single FAT32-type partition labeled "casper-rw," then formatted the > > partition as FAT32. I booted to the Live DVD with the flash drive > > inserted (choosing F6 Options and adding " persistent" to the boot > > string), made some changes, rebooted again the same way and found that > > the changes had not been saved. > > > > So apparently I'm still missing something. > > > Hi John, > > If you manage to get persistence with 50 MB, you are doing it the > correct way. So you should be able to use all remaining space after the > iso is installed (I guess close to 300 MB on a 1 GB pendrive or flash > card). But I think even 300 MB will be full rather soon. If it does not > work when you increase the size of the persistent file, I think > something might be bad with the device or the file system. Or maybe it > is just too slow. > > An oversized CD iso or DVD iso will leave less space for persistence, > and I would not bother trying to squeeze persistence into a 1 GB drive. > > I bought a cheap ten-pack with 4 GB Sandisk USB 2 pendrives, that I can > use for testing various things. But it is much nicer to have USB 3 for > persistent live and installed systems because it is much faster when > writing huge amounts of small files. (USB 3 pendrives are also faster in > USB 2 ports, because the flash hardware is faster.) Also an old HDD, > that you connect via USB 2, will be faster than a USB 2 pendrive for the > same reason. See this link (Prerequisites: the paragraph about speed). > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick > > 4 GB is also enough to install Lubuntu (not a persistent live system, > but installed like it were installed to a HDD). See these links > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstalledSystemFakePAE > > > https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B46yhFQuJvfPRXRvSmJ6b0xoNE0&usp=sharing > > This link is faster for downloading the image file > > > http://phillw.net/isos/lubuntu-fake-pae/raring/installed-system/dd_saucy-a2-installed-system_4GB.img.gz > > md5sum: > cd2cc5cfa751a163e19304981f6f44a2 dd_saucy-a2-installed-system_4GB.img.gz > > Best regards > Nio > > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > -- > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw >
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