I have been using Bart's boot cd for a long time to fix computers or take files off a computer with a corrupt operating system. However, being a disc it won't let me save on the CD. I have to put in a usb drive to save files.
That is fine because Bart's Boot Disc has the drivers for USB.
Recently I made a bootable usb with linux mint. Now at last, I thought, I could boot off of a USB and just copy the files onto my linux desktop. USBs are writable after all, right?
Nothing is saving tho! I think it must just be loading the ISO and not keeping any changes I make. Is there a linux distribution I can install off of a USB device that will keep changes when I move from computer to computer? Or are they all doing what I think is happening with my linux mint usb (loading up an iso on boot and not a changeable OS)?
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
All changes? No, it takes too much computational power to repackage an ISO.
I think Mint will let you write to a particular directory and persist that.
Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
Can't it just have the OS on the flash like it does a hard drive? Why does it have to read an iso? Or is there something about how flash drives save data that won't allow it?
I didn't think about a particular directory. I will go to their site and find out were it is. Thanks fugu13.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Usually in order to include more things they need to compress the information, which requires a lot of work. There are some *nixes that are small enough to fit on a flash drive without compression, one of those might work. For instance, DSL (just google for DSL Linux).