Re: [Trisquel-users] Live USB Issues

[sora]

I create my own Debian Live USB-HDD Images. I haven't tried creating a custom  
trisquel image because I do not have any storage devices. To create  
persistent volume I just partition it using gparted or parted and set the  
name to persistence the filesystem to ext3 or ext2 (flash friendly) and  
create a file in the root directory of that partition a persistence.conf that  
contains the line: / union
If you want to add a encryption to that partition then you need the  
cryptsetup package for LUKS, formatting the partition to a LUKS container: $  
sudo cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdXZ then opening it $ sudo cryptsetup  
luksOpen /dev/sdXZ encrypted after that making the filesystem: $ sudo  
mkfs.ext3 -L persistence /dev/mapper/encrypted and adding the  
persistence.conf file with the content / union. I use syslinux so I install  
it to the flash drive's primary partition: $ sudo syslinux -i /dev/sdXY also  
dd'ing the MBR of syslinux to the drive $ sudo dd conv=notrunc bs=440 count=1  
if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdX


this tutorial works in debian but I do no know if it will work perfectly with  
trisquel but since trisquel is based on ubuntu which is based on debian I  
think it will work. You can download the tutorial in the attachment

Re: [Trisquel-users] Live USB Issues

[leestrobel]

As a general question: can Libreboot boot up using EFI-mode, as well as  
legacy BIOS mode? E.g. if I connect a USB or external HDD that is configured  
to boot with EFI, can Libreboot boot it?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Live USB Issues

[leestrobel]

Thanks for the link, SuperTramp83. However the link to the Debian img file in  
that article doesn't work - it seems they have removed the  
/current-live/i386/usb-hdd folder. I tried that same procedure before though,  
using a Trisquel Mini ISO, and the result was bootable on my machine;  
however, I wasn't able to resize the partition in gparted. Gparted wasn't  
able to find the partition at all, which led me to believe that the partition  
table had been overwritten during the dd process.


Interestingly, I made an EFI-bootable Trisquel Mini USB, using Universal USB  
Installer on Windows, and that seemed to boot up ok through Libreboot. It  
didn't have any persistence though.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Live USB Issues

[greatgnu]

brief search turned out this linky, the procedure should work

https://www.linux.com/blog/creating-debian-live-usb-flash-drive-persistence-non-techies

[Trisquel-users] Live USB Issues

[leestrobel]

I'm trying to create a live USB on Trisquel 7, following the methods given on  
this wiki page and I seem to be having some issues.


If I use the Startup Disk Creator tool, the USB doesn't seem to boot properly  
through Libreboot. The same thing seems to happen, regardless of whether or  
not I enable the persistent storage.


If I use the 'dd' method to just copy the ISO file, the USB does boot.  
However, I was hoping to make it persistent and I'm not sure how to do that  
using this method. If I go into gparted (to try to resize the partition), it  
doesn't seem to recognize any partitions on the USB (presumably the 'dd'  
command over-wrote the partition table?).


Has anyone else experienced this, or know how I can make a persistent USB in  
Trisquel?