Failure installing Ubuntu 24.04 on an USB stick

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 at 18:19, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:

> I don't get what you mean by "persistent Live Ubuntu flavour installations".
> With "persistent" you seem to mean normal installations (on an USB stick),
> right?

No, wrong.

When you write an ISO to USB, it's possible to configure it to have
write access to an area of the media. This means that it can save
settings. You can even `apt full-upgrade` it and it works (although it
writes the new files *as well as* the old ones, because it can't write
to an ISO file, so it is very space-inefficient.

This feature is called "persistence."

So, a live system with persistence, or a "persistent live system" for
short, is an ISO file written to USB with an additional area to save
info to set up as well.

It is not the same as _installing onto USB_ which is in my experience
very rare -- but I do it too and find it useful.

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