On August 18, 2015, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona wrote: > installing the linux live dvd version on to my usb thumb drive how > ever I know that you have to make a persistent directory for it to > save any changes. is there a way to do this in a gui interface? If you've got the DVD installed to the USB drive, I'd guess that by default, it should be smart enough to give you read/write space because it's a read/write medium. There might even be an option for read/write ability in the install-to-USB-drive process. So I'd try just that and ignore the rest of my blather below if that works. Otherwise, press on. I don't know how you'd do it in the GUI, but if you've actually installed to the USB thumb-drive, then you have a couple options: 1) it sounds like it might be mounting the system partition(s) as read-only. If so, you could edit your /etc/fstab as root (or with `sudoedit`) and change the mount-options to read-write. Usually this involves simply removing a "ro" entry from the list of options. 2) it's using a read-only file-system (maybe like squashfs), in which case you'd want to have an extra partition or three on your USB drive that can then be mounted read/write. You might need a couple for the various locations that get mounted and written to, such as /tmp and /var, as well as the obvious /home where you keep your stuff. Also, because it's read-only, you might have to unsquash the file-system somewhere, modify the /etc/fstab mounts, then re-squash and put it back on the USB drive. An ugly proposition all around. Otherwise, you'd need to include more detail regarding which distro/flavor that you're trying. It would help nail down a solution for you. -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list