usb-creator issue?

[Fester Bestertester]

Yep, I'm behind the times running 16.04 - but trying to make a live USB stick with 16.10 - *and persistent*. The handiest and clearest 'howto' is: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent, Ubuntu but purports applicable to kubuntu too, and OLD! 8.10 Intrepid. It says usb-creator-gtk has a slider to set the size of a persistence file. I'd suspect 8.10 Kubuntu would also have had this. My earliest CD is 9.10 Jaunty (Ubuntu), and that doesn't have usb-creator-gtk. Its drivers also don't know my more modern hardware so I can't get it from the 'net. 16.04's usb-creator(-kde) doesn't show the slider, so will only generate a non-persistent stick. Did that slider and facility exist beyond 8.10, when did it disappear, and can we pleeeze get it back? I'm sick and tired of booting back to windblows to re-learn it so I can fully clean the stick (essential step not possible by Kubi) and run UUI.
Hopeful...

[Rod J]

Try Unetbootin ... it works, is up to date and has a persistence option. Either download one of the binary 'bin' files and extract the executable and put somewhere in your path (suggest /usr/local/bin) or install via the ppa.

[hallergard]

Why don't you just install to the USB stick as if it was a hard disk drive. Todays fast USB3 drives and fast flash drives such as SanDisk Extreme have surpassed the usb-creator method. Personally I just clone a PC partition on to the flash drive https://youtu.be/l9MFxbUI_9Q

[Qqmike]

+1 to what hallengard said. That way you have a full, permanent instillation of Kubuntu on your flash drive, from which you can do anything--run it as an OS, run it as you would a live USB for rescue operations, storing as much as you want on it (subject to the size of the flash drive), and so on.

[vinnywright]

IF you want a live-USB with the installer and all with persistence,,,,,,(the installer gets removed when you do an actual install) ,,,,,,,look hear

post 6-7

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...l=1#post395533

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

... Personally I just clone a PC partition on to the flash drive https://youtu.be/l9MFxbUI_9Q

+1, and quite a display of Linux prowess, I would add!

[Fester Bestertester]

A bit of a delay, but back on the trail, and back to basics. I dug out a trusty 'Trusty' CD, and from that was able to create a persistent 14.04 stick then updated. All OK until updating to 16.04, then pfffft! - grub gone . Creating a HD partition to clone went the same way, probably because the only spare space I have is on a 2TB USB drive. 16.04 onwards definitely does not like USB, possibly anything beyond 14.04 likewise. It'll take a bit of 'noodling' to get some stuff off the 'host' 1TB SATA drive to try again, but meanwhile I've got a non-persistent 16.04 to do an install elsewhere should I really need to... Now taking a break for the festive follies. Happy bah humbug, all.