Failure installing Ubuntu 24.04 on an USB stick

[Volker Wysk]

Am Samstag, dem 24.08.2024 um 23:12 +0100 schrieb 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.

Okay, understood.

More documentation is here:
https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-persistent-live-usb/
https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html

> 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.

Yes, I'll try your virtual machine method again. Thanks!

Volker