#Using gparted live usb full#
#Using gparted live usb iso#

Unzip all the files and copy them into your USB flash drive or USB hard drive.

If it's not automatically mounted, manually mount it with commands such as 'mkdir -p /media/usb mount /dev/sdd1 /media/usb/'. In this example, we assume /dev/sdd1 has FAT filesystem, and it is automatically mounted in dir /media/usb/. Let's say, for example, that you find it is /dev/sdd1. Next, run the command 'dmesg' to query the device name of the USB flash drive or USB hard drive.

Insert your USB flash drive or USB hard drive into the USB port on your Linux machine and wait a few seconds.

Be sure to confirm the command before you run it. WARNING!В Executing the mkfs.vfat command on the wrong partition or device could cause your GNU/Linux not to boot. Then format the partition as FAT with a command such as 'mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdd1' Here we assume your USB flash drive or USB hard drive is /dev/sdd ( You have to comfirm your device name, since it's _NOT_ always /dev/sdd) on your GNU/Linux, so the partition table is like: # fdisk -l /dev/sddДisk /dev/sdd: 12.8 GB, 12884901888 bytesДЎ5 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26630 cylinders gparted, parted, fdisk, cfdisk or sfdisk) to create a partition with a size of 200 MB or more. If the USB flash drive or USB hard drive does not have any partition, you can use a partitioning tool (e.g. Otherwise prepare at least a 200 MB partition formatted with either a FAT16 or FAT32 file system.

If you already have a FAT16 or FAT32 partition on your USB flash drive then skip to the next step (3).

Mkusb is a grub2 type bootable flash drive maker that uses a FAT32 partition for boot, a write only ISO9660 partition for the OS, a ext4 casper-rw partition for persistence and a NTFS data partition accessible to both Linux and Windows.WARNING! Confirm you have the correct path name before executing commands!ДЇailure to do so could cause loss of data or your GNU/Linux not to boot!!!

#Using gparted live usb full#

Syslinux 6.03 offers full support for NTFS, (and many other fs), so there is no longer a 4GB persistent file size limit required to satisfy FAT32. Persistent partitions have not worked with syslinux type installs such as SDC, UNetbootin, Rufus, etc since 14.04, (unless the partition is located on a separate drive). Menu label ^Try Ubuntu without installingДЄppend file=/cdrom/preseed/ed boot=casper cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent noprompt floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -ДЄppend file=/cdrom/preseed/ed boot=casper only-ubiquity cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent noprompt floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -ДЄppend boot=casper integrity-check cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent noprompt floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash. PS: If you don't want to use UNetbootin and you are using the 'Startup disk creator' in Ubuntu then you need to do some edits to your syslinux/txt.cfg file as follows: default live Persistence (via the persistent kernel option) should already be set up if you used UNetbootin, so safely eject the USB and you're ready to go! Mount this partition (here, sdb1), and delete /casper-rw. Once everything is done, the final step is to delete the small casper-rw file created on the vfat partition you installed the live CD on, so that the large ext4 casper-rw partition is used instead.

Put a tiny size for UNetbootin's persistence option (say, 10В MB) to make life easier don't worry, we won't actually be using this casper-rw file.

#Using gparted live usb iso#

Use UNetbootin to write your chosen live CD ISO to the first (vfat) USB partition. So if you have the issue then use live GParted CD for partitioning.

Also note that GParted 0.18.0 seems to have problems partitioning the USB stick. You can use your own USB creator, but you should then modify the below steps appropriately. Note: I prefer to use UNetbootin because it makes editing the syslinux configuration easy.

You can, of course, add third, fourth, extended/logical partitions, etc.

The second partition should be ext4, sized to whatever you want your persistent storage to be (no limits), but it must be labeled casper-rw (all lower case, no quotes).

The first partition must be vfat/FAT32, and minimum size 750 MB (or more if you are using a live DVD image).

Your target USB disk must have at least two partitions I recommend using GParted to create a new partition table.

This is very easy to do, although the 'casper-rw' name will still show up once :)