04-12-2015, 04:49 AM
Hi LL-user and gold_finger,
Great info in your replies! Thank you! Will try these as time permits!
The main trouble I'm having right now is the difficulty in creating persistent usb sticks using recent linux distros. Of course my main OS is LL, which I think is just a wonderful OS but because of my probs, I've experimented with other distros, mainly deb or ubuntu.
What I've found is similar with most, if not all.
Initially I suspected my machine, but have now eliminated this, as I'm on my 4th separate test computer. Not mine (if I could be so lucky) and the results are the same.
So far, I think I have discovered a bug in gparted (the version included in the distros) by this reasoning. Using gparted in LL and the other similar distros with my method of minimizing the fat32 and creating a discrete ext2 partition, causes GP to exit without changing the stick. Using the same stick and repeating the GP procedure on my old computer running Mint9 resizes and partitions the stick, perfectly.
Additionally, I'm getting mixed results with sticks created in whatever method I use in my experimenting. Have noticed that these sticks sometimes will not boot at all, others will boot but hang or just go slow. Firefox 37.01 and 36.01 are now slow to load pages and frequently just stop, as if congested. Thunderbird also frequently crashes or hangs. If left long enough it will finally close.
Anyway, all in all, I think I'm chasing multiple problems and it's a matter of tracking them down one by one.
All this, whilst interesting and demanding, is quite frustrating when I just want to quickly create LL sticks with persistence and farm them out to update the various people I support. I also noticed my old machine with Mint9 on a celeron machine runs faster, is fluid, FF (15) is much better and a delight to use. All these newer OS's seem to have degraded performance IMHO.
Perhaps some of these problems could be attributed to privacy/security issues, init/systemd changes, cheap sticks etc. Just a thought! Lots of things to sort out that were not an issue several years back.
However, I'm still plugging away. Will post results as found, but will first try your suggestions. Need to buy a few more sticks beforehand, though.
Great info in your replies! Thank you! Will try these as time permits!
The main trouble I'm having right now is the difficulty in creating persistent usb sticks using recent linux distros. Of course my main OS is LL, which I think is just a wonderful OS but because of my probs, I've experimented with other distros, mainly deb or ubuntu.
What I've found is similar with most, if not all.
Initially I suspected my machine, but have now eliminated this, as I'm on my 4th separate test computer. Not mine (if I could be so lucky) and the results are the same.
So far, I think I have discovered a bug in gparted (the version included in the distros) by this reasoning. Using gparted in LL and the other similar distros with my method of minimizing the fat32 and creating a discrete ext2 partition, causes GP to exit without changing the stick. Using the same stick and repeating the GP procedure on my old computer running Mint9 resizes and partitions the stick, perfectly.
Additionally, I'm getting mixed results with sticks created in whatever method I use in my experimenting. Have noticed that these sticks sometimes will not boot at all, others will boot but hang or just go slow. Firefox 37.01 and 36.01 are now slow to load pages and frequently just stop, as if congested. Thunderbird also frequently crashes or hangs. If left long enough it will finally close.
Anyway, all in all, I think I'm chasing multiple problems and it's a matter of tracking them down one by one.
All this, whilst interesting and demanding, is quite frustrating when I just want to quickly create LL sticks with persistence and farm them out to update the various people I support. I also noticed my old machine with Mint9 on a celeron machine runs faster, is fluid, FF (15) is much better and a delight to use. All these newer OS's seem to have degraded performance IMHO.
Perhaps some of these problems could be attributed to privacy/security issues, init/systemd changes, cheap sticks etc. Just a thought! Lots of things to sort out that were not an issue several years back.
However, I'm still plugging away. Will post results as found, but will first try your suggestions. Need to buy a few more sticks beforehand, though.