Fedora 14 Live USB, can not make persistent changes

Poser · 01-10-2011, 11:59 PM

I am running a live (4gb) USB of Fedora_14 with 768mb peristent storage.

I am trying to add firmware for broadcom wireless link, as it is not natively supported.

When I download tar, extract and copy missing firmware then reboot... all changes are reverted back. How do I make these changes persistent upon reboot.

Sorry... super linux noob here, and I have spent hours searching with little progress.

Thanks

xandercage17 · 01-11-2011, 08:15 AM

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linus72 · 01-11-2011, 08:19 AM

Poser can you verify that persistence is working at all?
if you bootup, change wallpaper, etc then reboot is it saving the settings?

did you use the fedora liveusb creator or what?

Poser · 01-11-2011, 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xandercage17

Probably this is the answer to your call:
$ livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 512 /path/to/ISO /dev/USBPARTITIONNAME

It's from this site:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo

The only problem is that you will have to make your Live USB from the begining.

I explored this page as well... but just to be on the safe side, I re-created my LiveUSB... will report back.

Thanks!

Poser · 01-11-2011, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linus72

Poser can you verify that persistence is working at all?
if you bootup, change wallpaper, etc then reboot is it saving the settings?

did you use the fedora liveusb creator or what?

Yup... used liveusb creator, though I think I should have probably gone the command line route for more tuned control. Re-created USB and will be trying again shortly.

Thanks all.

Poser · 01-11-2011, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linus72

Poser can you verify that persistence is working at all?
if you bootup, change wallpaper, etc then reboot is it saving the settings?

did you use the fedora liveusb creator or what?

A change of the background is not kept... nor are any other changes. How can I force persistence?

16pide · 01-14-2011, 08:28 AM

I used this one a while ago, using fedora 12, with 1.5GB of persistent storage:
https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/

You can check that it worked by seeing a 1.5GB file in the usb key, under /LiveOS :
$ ls -lh /media/FEDORA/LiveOS/overlay-FEDORA-79BE-2DC5
-rwxr-xr-x 1 georges georges 1.5G Dec 12 2009 /media/FEDORA/LiveOS/overlay-FEDORA-79BE-2DC5

The path will be different when booted on the key, or when the key is plugged on a windows machine, but you get the idea

My usb key is dns server, dhcp server, ftp server, http server, and a few other things. So it definitely works.

One thing I don't do though is update the software that's on it because that would use a lot of persistent storage

Have fun!

jsteel · 03-02-2011, 07:03 AM

I'm having this issue too with Fedora 14. I have the large overlay file (mentioned in the previous post) but no settings get saved (wallpaper, software etc.).

I used the liveusb-creator (again, mentioned in the previous post) running on Windows.

jsteel · 03-02-2011, 11:13 AM

I fixed my issue; I formatted the drive and renamed it to FEDORA (in Windows under "My Computer"), ran the liveusb-creator again and all OK! I'm not sure if this will help the OP.