Baltix
casper package

LiveCD: Persistence is complex to use

Bug #34169 reported by Chip Piller
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Bug Description

According to the wiki found here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDPersistence
in order for one to use persistence with the LiveCD one is required to format a usb flash drive with a certain filesystem type, give the file system a specific label (casper-rw), insert the usb key prior to booting the LiveCD, and when the bootsplash appears one is expected to hit a certain function key and append the "persistent" option to a kernel boot argument line (this information is not available in a help screen at bootup). This is just crazy, this cannot be the real plan?? Is this just a temporary attempt to enable persistence?

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Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) wrote :

No, it's not a temporary attempt.

Matt Zimmerman (mdz)
Changed in casper:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Chip Piller (piller)
description: updated
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livesys (livesys) wrote :

Take a look at Sidux, they have nice scripts for easy setup of persistent.
Ubuntu can surely create something similar.

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Carlo de Wolf (wolfc) wrote :

Why not have persistence option enabled by default?

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

To make it safe, it would maybe be good if the casper-rw somehow is matched against .disk/casper-uuid-generic to make sure it's only mounted together with the rofs it was meant for?

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

One can now use usb-creator-gtk (a GUI application in Ubuntu) to easily format a USB drive with persistence enabled so I am setting this bug to Fix Released.

Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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