What is the best program for creating a bootable Flash Drive which will be persistent... i.e. maintain my settings and programs?
Secondly, is there one for making a persistent customized DVD which is read-only? I might prefer this sometimes, when wanting greater security.
Alternatively, can I run a program which will "lock down" the bootable USB flash drive to be read-only after customization? I've heard one can buy expensive flash drives that can do so, but I'm wondering if it can be similarly achieved via either free software or encryption.
Thanks.
Persistent Bootable USB or DVD
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Re: Persistent Bootable USB or DVD
http://youtu.be/pq2bsTh_dDs How to use unetbootin to make a liveusb - with persistence.lmlm wrote:What is the best program for creating a bootable Flash Drive which will be persistent... i.e. maintain my settings and programs?
Secondly, is there one for making a persistent customized DVD which is read-only? I might prefer this sometimes, when wanting greater security.
Alternatively, can I run a program which will "lock down" the bootable USB flash drive to be read-only after customization? I've heard one can buy expensive flash drives that can do so, but I'm wondering if it can be similarly achieved via either free software or encryption.
Thanks.
You can use a persistence file with a livedvd but the file could not be on the dvd.
The best way to do this would be by remastering the iso.
You could install trucrypt on the live usb - but this would be a file you can open and would not encrypt the home folder.
You could install to a 8G flash stick and encrypt the home system.
I belive that the next issue of mint will have the option to encrypt the whole file system.
Re: Persistent Bootable USB or DVD
You speak of encryption with the goal of preventing thieves from reading data off the physical Thumb Drive, correct?usbtux wrote: You could install to a 8G flash stick and encrypt the home system.
I belive that the next issue of mint will have the option to encrypt the whole file system.
But encryption will not prevent writing to the drive while I'm logged in and online, correct?
This writing is of concern only when booting with persistence, obviously, I assume?
Someone recently taught me how to edit the syslinux.cfg file so that it would present boot options for both persistent and live USB. I've attached the code.
So was editing that boot file sufficient to prevent re-writing when I choose to boot Live (without persistence)... in other words, when choosing non-persistent mode, the USB functions like a live CD, via RAM only, such that corruption/malware cannot rewrite the saved USB copy?
Thanks
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Re: Persistent Bootable USB or DVD
The forum won't upload a cfg nor a txt file, for some reason, so instead I've pasted the code below (syslinux.cfg file)lmlm wrote: Someone recently taught me how to edit the syslinux.cfg file so that it would present boot options for both persistent and live USB. I've attached the code.
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default menu.c32
prompt 0
menu title UNetbootin
timeout 100
label unetbootindefault
menu label Default
kernel /ubnkern
append initrd=/ubninit file=/cdrom/preseed/mint.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
label ubnentry0
menu label Start Linux Mint
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/mint.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
label ubnentry1
menu label Start in compatibility mode
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/mint.seed boot=casper xforcevesa nomodeset b43.blacklist=yes ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw noapic noapci nosplash irqpoll --
label ubnentry2
menu label Start Linux Mint Persistent
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/mint.seed boot=casper quiet splash -- persistent
label ubnentry3
menu label Start in compatibility mode Persistent
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/mint.seed boot=casper xforcevesa nomodeset b43.blacklist=yes ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw noapic noapci nosplash irqpoll -- persistent
label ubnentry4
menu label Integrity check
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append initrd=/casper/initrd.lz boot=casper integrity-check quiet splash -- persistent
label ubnentry5
menu label Memory test
kernel /isolinux/memtest
append initrd=/ubninit persistent
label ubnentry6
menu label Boot from local drive
kernel /ubnkern
append initrd=/ubninit persistent
label ubnentry7
menu label Start Linux Mint (compatibility mode)
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/mint.seed boot=casper xforcevesa iso-scan/filename=${iso_path} ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw noapic noapci nosplash irqpoll -- persistent
label ubnentry8
menu label Check the integrity of the medium
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append initrd=/casper/initrd.lz boot=casper integrity-check iso-scan/filename=${iso_path} quiet splash -- persistent
label ubnentry9
menu label Test memory
kernel /ubnkern
append initrd=/ubninit persistent
Re: Persistent Bootable USB or DVD
Hello my name is jack. I have an old compaq machine. The cd quit some time ago. It had win xp home, with 2 drive partitions on it. 1st partition was to reformat the 2nd partition with the statndard win xp oem edition. I have a 4gig and a 8 gig usb drives. Most linux distros including Ubuntu did not work. Linux Mint 14 nadia worked when I selected compatible mode at boot. I now have my main hard-drive os as Linux Mint Olivia 15, with the mate desktop. I have a working 8gig usb with the Mint 15 and the matedesktop, with 4gig of persistence on it. It generally works good; but changeing the supersuer doesn't work. Either you are the mint@mint superuser or nothing. I would like to change this and a few other things also. If anyone would like detailed instructions on how to do this just leave a post and I will post how I did it. Would like your input to this and other things I can change to make it better or more usable. I would like to have a fully functioning linux usb to take anywhere. Thank you in advance for putting what you know on the forum and what we may acheive in the future.
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