Fwd: Re: On running a persistence session...

[John Kim]

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From: "John Kim" <thinkndev at gmail.com>
Date: Aug 10, 2012 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: On running a persistence session...
To: "Nicholas Skaggs" <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>

The usb-creator doesn't include a checkbox for persistence. :(

I've been able to format a pen drive to ext3, but I can't invoke "other
options" on my mac with f6 at the ubiquity home screen.

I've been trying the live cd for mac, only to be disappointed that the F6
key doesn't work. I also don't know how to restart the live cd into
persistence. :( Hence, when I restarted, I started with a fresh lived
session.

How can I restart the live cd persistence? Thanks for the help.

-John.
 On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Nicholas Skaggs <
nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:

>  John, I believe the simplest way is to use the usb-creator in ubuntu and
> check the persistence box.. The loopback file goes on your usd drive. What
> happens is that you start a live session, save some files, and then the
> next time you boot the live session from your usb stick, those files are
> still there (because they were written to the usb stick).
>
> Normally an image can't do that type of thing. But having the image on
> rewritable media means we can :-)
>
> Make sense? I'm trying to dig up some more info as well about how others
> have done it in the past outside of the usb creator.
>
> Nicholas
>
>
> On 08/10/2012 10:27 AM, John Kim wrote:
>
> Hello QA team.
>
>  I've been able to do a live test successfully but not a live persistence
> session.  Therefore, I found some guidance from this wiki page<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence>
> .
>
>  But I'm confused with the necessity of a loopback file. It says that the
> loopback file must be created in the root directory of a partition, but in
> which? my devel computer or my mac?  Is it ok to put the file on my
> ext3-formatted usb stick and use that for the persistence testcase?
>
>  Thanks.
>
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