Live Disc, with Persistence storage either on a flash drive or hard drive

[John Hupp]

I tried to get to a workable Raring Live DVD setup with persistence on a 
USB flash drive.  In Gparted, I deleted the existing partition on the 
flash drive, created a single FAT32-type partition labeled "casper-rw," 
then formatted the partition as FAT32.  I booted to the Live DVD with 
the flash drive inserted (choosing F6 Options and adding " persistent" 
to the boot string), made some changes, rebooted again the same way and 
found that the changes had not been saved.

I also tried to set up the Raring Live DVD with persistence on an 
internal hard drive.  In a terminal I did:
     dd if-/dev/zero of=casper-rw bs=1M count=768
     mkfs.ext3 -F casper-rw
Then I moved the resulting casper-rw file both to the root of the hard 
drive,  rebooted to the Live DVD (choosing F6 Options and adding " 
persistent" to the boot string), made some changes, rebooted again the 
same way and found that the changes had not been saved.

(Perhaps I should note that I have succeeded making a Live USB stick 
with persistence storage located on the same 4GB or 8GB stick, but I 
also wanted to figure out how to use a Live DVD + 1GB stick.)