Does making a persistent liveUSB work for you?
You need an empty USB stick and a .iso disk image for this.
Goto System > Admin > Startup disk creator. Once you've selected the source and the target, you should be able to select how big a persistance file you want to get at the bottom of the dialog. This stays grayed out for me forever.
Does it work for you? If you're using something else than Trisquel 5.0, be sure to mention it.
Up to 4.5 it worked for me, i've not tried with 5.0 yet, but i'll do in these day... I'll inform you!
Thanks mate! Looks like I can workaround by making another partition on the USB of type Ext2/3/4 with label 'casper-rw'.
On my Trisquel 5.0 AMD64 system I can set the persistent space with both trisquel_5.0_amd64.iso and trisquel_5.0_i686.iso. Try formating your USB stick with Disk Utility, using the "Format Drive" option.
Thanks for the report and the suggestion. I'm on AMD64 and have tried formatting to various partition types in Disk Utility. Neither that or the format option offered by usb-creator-gtk help. Was trying to burn trisquel_5.0_amd64.iso.
Perhaps this is only some problem with my install.
Just to clarify, the "Format Drive" option formats the whole device, not just a partition like the "Format Volume" option does.
I have the same issue, I'm trying to make a trisquel-netinstall live usb.
I even tried to run:
$ usb-creator-gtk -i ~/Downloads/trisquel-netinst_5.0_i686.iso
I also cleared the first block of the drive like this:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1; sudo blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdc
however the button to make the usb disk is grey.
Actually, this is a somewhat different issue. The netinstall ISO files are not meant for a live environment. See this topic:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/netinstall-usb-key-boot-image
Many thanks for the solid workaround.
This is not a workaround. This is the way it was design to be done.
This is not a workaround. This is the way it was design to be done.
On my Trisquel 5.0 AMD64 system I can set the persistent space with both
trisquel_5.0_amd64.iso and trisquel_5.0_i686.iso. Try formating your USB
stick with Disk Utility, using the "Format Drive" function.
Just to clarify, the "Format Drive" option formats the whole device, not just
a partition like the "Format Volume" option does.
Up to 4.5 it worked for me, i've not tried with 5.0 yet, but i'll do in these
day... I'll inform you!
Thanks mate! Looks like I can workaround by making another partition on the
USB of type Ext2/3/4 with label 'casper-rw'.
You need an empty USB stick and a .iso disk image for this.
Goto System > Admin > Startup disk creator. Once you've selected the source
and the target, you should be able to select how big a persistance file you
want to get at the bottom of the dialog. This stays grayed out for me
forever.
Does it work for you? If you're using something else than Trisquel 5.0, be
sure to mention it.
Thanks for the report and the suggestion. I'm on AMD64 and have tried
formatting to various partition types in Disk Utility. Neither that or the
format option offered by usb-creator-gtk help. Was trying to burn
trisquel_5.0_amd64.iso.
Perhaps this is only some problem with my install.
I have the same issue, I'm trying to make a trisquel-netinstall live usb.
I even tried to run:
$ usb-creator-gtk -i ~/Downloads/trisquel-netinst_5.0_i686.iso
I also cleared the first block of the drive like this:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1; sudo blockdev
--rereadpt /dev/sdc
however the button to make the usb disk is grey.
Actually, this is a somewhat different issue. The netinstall ISO files are
not meant for a live environment. See this topic:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/netinstall-usb-key-boot-image
Many thanks for the solid workaround.