Create USB live thumbdrive

[chiefjim]

Searching the forums is producing more confusion than solutions. Perhaps I'm just making things more complex than they really are.

What I wish to do is create an installation on a USB bootable thumbdrive. Believe a keyword might be "persistent" as I wish to save files created while using it back to the thumbdrive. Would someone kindly mention what applications are needed for this? Mint 8 or 9 depending on which is the most straightforward process.

Thanks

[techtype]

In Mint 9 go to -- "Control Center" --- "Startup Disk Creator" and use with an untouched or remastered iso of Mint. Choose to erase the disk so that you can set an amount of space to be used for persistance.

[chiefjim]

In Mint 9 go to -- "Control Center" --- "Startup Disk Creator" and use with an untouched or remastered iso of Mint. Choose to erase the disk so that you can set an amount of space to be used for persistance.

Running into a problem with this. The basic install works fine up to when I want to check updates, then the thumbdrive runs out of room. Thought perhaps the 4GB unit was too small but the same thing happens with an 8GB drive.

[techtype]

In Mint 9 go to -- "Control Center" --- "Startup Disk Creator" and use with an untouched or remastered iso of Mint. Choose to erase the disk so that you can set an amount of space to be used for persistance.

Running into a problem with this. The basic install works fine up to when I want to check updates, then the thumbdrive runs out of room. Thought perhaps the 4GB unit was too small but the same thing happens with an 8GB drive.

When you erase the drive, the option to create a persistent file has a slider bar. You have to drag the slider to create a much larger file than the very small default one. Give it at least a gigabyte.