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  • Isodumper persistence

    From Mike Easter@2:250/1 to All on Wed May 7 23:47:49 2025
    I like live disto + persistence (of the right kind, not just 'some
    data'). In the past I've been happy w/ Linux Mint + dus/mkusb, but
    recent LM and mkusb didn't get along, requiring me to shift that to an
    install on SSD.

    I've been able to put MX on a Ventoy SSD + an SSD persistence and Puppy Bookworm 64 on a combo of Ventoy USB + ssd persistence, but not Easy OS.

    Today was my first go at Mageia's and I was disappointed that the
    isodumper's file manager wouldn't let me use a Ventoy USB live Mageia 9
    XFCE to access its .iso from another device; but I managed to get
    things situated after some trial and error by using the partitioned USB
    to boot Mageia live and add the isodumper and then write to a different
    USB w/ the isodumper. Next I want to figure out how to have the Mageia
    ..iso on an SSD and its persistence (I guess in the form of a partition)
    on SSD.


    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Mike Easter@2:250/1 to All on Wed May 7 23:56:01 2025
    Mike Easter wrote:

    Today was my first go at Mageia's

    Oops; sig fix.

    --
    Mike Easter


    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Mike Easter@2:250/1 to All on Fri May 9 17:08:06 2025
    Mike Easter wrote:
    Next I want to figure out how to have the Mageia
    .iso on an SSD and its persistence (I guess in the form of a partition)
    on SSD.

    Here's the structure of a persistent live on a 16G USB from diskinfo:

    - --- /dev/sdc
    Block device, size 14.55 GiB (15623782400 bytes)
    GRUB boot loader, unknown compat version 121
    DOS/MBR partition map
    Partition 2: 4 MiB (4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors from 7083320)
    Type 0xEF (EFI System (FAT))
    FAT12 file system (hints score 5 of 5)
    Volume size 3.977 MiB (4169728 bytes, 2036 clusters of 2 KiB)
    Volume name "MGAISO-ESP"
    Partition 3: 11.17 GiB (11992563712 bytes, 23422976 sectors from 7092224)
    Type 0x83 (Linux)
    Ext4 file system
    Volume name "mgalive-persist"
    UUID 389F85CA-F248-491A-A856-2A7ABAC75F02 (DCE, v4)
    Last mounted at "/"
    Volume size 11.17 GiB (11992563712 bytes, 2927872 blocks of 4 KiB)
    ISO9660 file system
    Volume name "Mageia-9-Live-Xfce-x86_64"
    Publisher "MAGEIA.ORG"
    Preparer "DRAKISO"
    Application "GNU XORRISO 1.5.2"
    Data size 3.378 GiB (3626659840 bytes, 1770830 blocks of 2 KiB)
    El Torito boot record, catalog at 65
    Bootable non-emulated image, starts at 66, preloads 2 KiB
    Platform 0x00 (x86), System Type 0x00 (Empty)
    Bootable non-emulated image, starts at 1770830, preloads 4 MiB
    (4194304 bytes)
    Platform 0xEF (EFI), System Type 0x00 (Empty)
    FAT12 file system (hints score 5 of 5)
    Volume size 3.977 MiB (4169728 bytes, 2036 clusters of 2 KiB)
    Volume name "MGAISO-ESP"
    Joliet extension, volume name "Mageia-9-Live-Xf"
    ------------------

    Of some interest, when Win Rufus (older v on W7) was asked to write the
    ..iso to a USB, it noted that the Mageia hybrid 'condition' was
    unconventional (or some word, maybe not recognized) so it was going to
    need to write as dd, one of its options. And, when I try to examine the
    USB w/ such as gparted, it just sees the iso9660 partition as that,
    without more information; whereas such as 'Disks' in linux mint or the diskdrake in Mageia can see the 9660 part better, such as above diskinfo.

    And, I've found a page linked from the wiki on live persistence about
    custom peristence.

    https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23654#c5
    Martin Whitaker 2018-10-09 21:57:58 CEST
    It can help if a manual process of the creation of persistence is described >> here.

    I've just done it like this:

    .... and follows a useful conversation w/ others.


    --
    Mike Easter

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Mike Easter@2:250/1 to All on Fri May 9 17:25:56 2025
    Mike Easter wrote:
    'Disks' in linux mint

    = gnome-disk-utility

    --
    Mike Easter

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1@fidonet)