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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi toriosadores,


0. I found that several tools do not work 'out of the box' to create a
persistent boot drive with ToriOS.

The best system was to use mkusb (which makes a pendrive read-only just
like a CD disk). This means that the persistence must be in another
drive, for example another pendrive or an internal drive. The
persistence can be contained in a file with the name 'live-rw' or in a
partition with the label 'live-rw'.


1. Unetbootin can create a bootable USB drive, but it assumes that the
name or partition is named or labeled 'casper-rw'. Furthermore it
creates a file for persistence in FAT32, which limits the size to 4 GB.


2. The shellscript *mk-toripersist* uses a modified configuration file
'syslinux.cfg' which makes it convenient to select between an ordinary
live session and a persistent live session.

mk-toripersist does some configuration automatically and also prompts
the user to follow a path, that is likely to be successful. (gparted and
Unetbootin are called by the script.)


3. There is a pdf manual *mk-toripersist_quick-start-manual.pdf* to make
things easier.

See this link

http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/torios/persist/

Enjoy :-)


Hi torios-devs,

The current version works for me. Maybe it could be packaged in a better
way, and maybe you will find some bug, or confusing feature, that should
be fixed or changed.


Best regards
Nio