04-16-2015, 12:12 PM
Hi gold_finger,
Have now successfully made 3rd live USB with LL2.4. (and on an old stick).
Have stopped using Startup Disk Creator, as it also seems to be part of the problem, together with the Gparted resizing glitch.
The fat32 partition imho, must need some wiggle room to organise the install before finishing off with the ext2 partition labeling and deletion of the original casper-rw partition.
Also Startup Disk Creator only allows a minimum of 1GB persistence and crashes if this amount is not available. That is, if the pre-built fat32 is say 1.8GB, the stick will finish, but with a fatal error and won't boot properly. In some cases booted fine, but resulted in stuttering, hanging or just plain painfully slow.
Unetbootin, on the other hand allows any persistence size from zero. I made a fat32 of 1.25Gb and set Unetbootin to create a persistence of 200Mb. This worked and the final persistence file came out as 157.3Mb, which was deleted after naming the ext2 partition. So Unetbootin is smart enough to use the balance of the partition for persistence.
Have installed many new programs on these sticks and all are quick. Indeed, the snappiness of menus, updates, installs and usage is on a par with an installed system. Happy days!
Cheers!
Have now successfully made 3rd live USB with LL2.4. (and on an old stick).
Have stopped using Startup Disk Creator, as it also seems to be part of the problem, together with the Gparted resizing glitch.
The fat32 partition imho, must need some wiggle room to organise the install before finishing off with the ext2 partition labeling and deletion of the original casper-rw partition.
Also Startup Disk Creator only allows a minimum of 1GB persistence and crashes if this amount is not available. That is, if the pre-built fat32 is say 1.8GB, the stick will finish, but with a fatal error and won't boot properly. In some cases booted fine, but resulted in stuttering, hanging or just plain painfully slow.
Unetbootin, on the other hand allows any persistence size from zero. I made a fat32 of 1.25Gb and set Unetbootin to create a persistence of 200Mb. This worked and the final persistence file came out as 157.3Mb, which was deleted after naming the ext2 partition. So Unetbootin is smart enough to use the balance of the partition for persistence.
Have installed many new programs on these sticks and all are quick. Indeed, the snappiness of menus, updates, installs and usage is on a par with an installed system. Happy days!
Cheers!