It's been so long (it seems) since this thread was started... I had given up on "Mint on a Stick", and didn't revisit it until about last week... The PenDriveLinux users have been busy, and came up with a snazy way to do a Minty Install from Windows (unpacks the ISO to your HD, you copy the folders and files to USB stick, run a bat file FROM the stick, reboot, and voila!). It works fine except that that persistent thing ( )... It even pretents to get and install updates -- it may very well DO that, but my stick is un-bootable after that. Well, not TOTALLY unbootable... it's un0mintable, for me. It starts and drops me off in an initramfs session but I have no idea what to do once I'm there.
If there are any logs I can check, tell me where they're at, and maybe I can at least get an UPDATED Minty Stick, even if it won't keep my changes.
Oh, in reading over some other, older stuff, I did see one person state a need to make a new user -- immediately -- with admin permissions, I guess to set up a root-able user for the next boot.
I will see if I can remember how to do that...
Otherwise, it's all too cool! I rolled a quick one for me, dropped another for a friend, and even tried their Ubuntu 7.10 install (same technique)... all fail on reboot if any updates happen (I wonder if it's "next boot" period? I need to play more with it, non-destructively)
I couldn't get Compiz going (needs updates) and that was one of the first updates I tried... I also tried their plain-jane "PenDriveLinux" install... it always starts well... then updates happen.
Back to the drawing board.
Linux Mint on a USB Stick
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- jonpackard
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Re: Linux Mint on a USB Stick
In response to a request for an update to this guide for Mint 5.0 - Please see http://linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/LiveUSB (I have not been able to get a successful USB boot without using unetbootin, but with unetbootin, it was easy!).
Jon Packard -- Linux Mint user since 11/14/2006
Re: Linux Mint on a USB Stick
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/linux-mint ... #more-1019jonpackard wrote:In response to a request for an update to this guide for Mint 5.0 - Please see http://linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/LiveUSB (I have not been able to get a successful USB boot without using unetbootin, but with unetbootin, it was easy!).
I think..this is very good and simply tutorial...i have it...it is working properly...
Kamil
Re: Linux Mint on a USB Stick
As mentioned before, www.pendrivelinux.com has many tutorials on how to install Linux Mint on a stick. For instance install Helena using Windows:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-li ... n-windows/
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-li ... n-windows/