[Fedora-livecd-list] Can not get persistence

ToddAndMargo ToddAndMargo at zoho.com
Sat May 17 06:12:30 UTC 2014


On 05/04/2014 05:09 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Xfce 4.8
> Scientific Linux 6.4, 64 bit
> livecd-tools-13.4.5-1.el6.x86_64
>
> For the life of me I can not get any persistence (things
> don't stay between reboots).
>
> What am I doing wrong ("#" is my boot prompt)?
>
> # fdisk /dev/sdc    d1, n, p1, t, c, w   (use type "C" for fat32)
>
> # mkdosfs -v -c  /dev/sdc1
>
> # livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 4095 --format --reset-mbr
> /home/kvm/Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-20-1.iso /dev/sdc1
>
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>


Tried erasing my whole flash dirve:

     dd bs=4096 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc

And starting over.

     livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 4095 
/home/kvm/Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-20-1.iso /dev/sdc1

Cut fine, but still no persistence.  I create a Leafpad
launcher, reboot, and it is gone.  :-(

-T

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