<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> Dom, 2006-08-06 às 15:45 +0000, Michał Sznajder escreveu: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> But new drive won't arrive until end of week so I would like to setup persistent LiveCD on USB stick to keep data between power-offs. I tried procedure from here <A HREF="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDPersistence">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDPersistence</A> but it didn't work. I tried different labels (casper-rw, casper-cow, cow), I tried different file systems (ext2, ext3, vfat with big file). Result is the same: after boot I see Ubuntu boot menu, I press F6, add persistent and than boot halts on mounting root file system with CD-ROM going crazy and giving strange errors " ... /dev/hdc read error..." after a while. But cd-image verification ends without errors. And no problems with normal LiveCD Any ideas how to set-up persistent storage with Ubuntu 6.06? I can provide all configuration info you need. Regards Michał Sznajder </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> The USB drive needs to get the label casper-cow to set the label just do: $ df -h to see the mounted outputs, the output should look like this: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 25G 24G 1,7G 94% / varrun 379M 220K 379M 1% /var/run varlock 379M 8,0K 379M 1% /var/lock udev 379M 148K 379M 1% /dev devshm 379M 48K 379M 1% /dev/shm lrm 379M 18M 361M 5% /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-686/volatile /dev/hda1 31G 26G 4,3G 86% /media/hda1 /dev/hdd 694M 694M 0 100% /media/cdrom0 /dev/sda1 979M 547M 433M 56% /media/KINGSTON USB devices are mounted as SCSI drivers, so you see the last drive mounted listed as /dev/sda1. This mean this is a SCSI drive. Now you know what is the drive of your USB device. If you have anything on them you must save it now to another place. Once you backed up your files do the following: $ sudo umount /dev/sda1 (in my case is sda1 like I've explained) Then create a new filesystem with the correct label: $ sudo mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -L casper-cow /dev/sda1 You must replace /dev/sda1 with the device name used by your device) To boot Ubuntu on persistent mode just do the following steps. Plug you USB drive in your computer, boot the computer with the LiveCD, then when you see the menu of the LiveCD to choice to boot up the system. You need to access Other Options, I think this should get with the F4 key. Now you will see a list of arguments that need to be used to boot, just add a space and persistent; then hit Enter. That's should work what you want <IMG SRC="cid:1154880619.13107.47.camel@localhost" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":)" BORDER="0"> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Sincerely José Oleiro aka Matafome (#computers at irc.ptnet.org <A HREF="http://blogmatafome.blogspot.com">Blog do Matafome</A> ) Running Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper with XGL on: Fujitsu-Siemens Model Amilo M 1420 Processor Centrino 1.6Ghz 768MB RAM HD 60GB from manufacturer Toshiba ATI 9700Pro 128MB RAM Internet Connection: Vodafone Mobile Connect Card 3G by Option Model Quad GT (384kbps/64kbps) Distributions installed SuSE 10.1 OSS, Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake (next distribution to get into my system Debian <IMG SRC="cid:1154879853.13107.33.camel@localhost" ALIGN="bottom" ALT=":D" BORDER="0"> ) </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>