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I have a 4gb here, You may want larger for persistance, however for install it is big enough, esp for 1 distro, Paul On 22/01/18 14:10, Julian Hall wrote: > Hi Paul, > > What size USB stick did you need for that? > > Kind regards, > > Julian > > On 22/01/18 12:53, Paul Sutton wrote: >> As a result of this topic I have made a Linuxmit 18.3 64 bit boot flash >> disk. Something to add, having two (or dualboot) may be handy, one >> with a OS like mint which is great, but another one, perhaps with a >> less resource intensive distro for any older hardware, netbooks, or less >> memory. >> >> as for creating the disk i used dd >> >> >> sudo dd if=linuxmint-18.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso of=/dev/sdc >> >> does what is said on the tin, as they say. it just works. Use lsblk to >> work out the device name / reference for the target drive. >> >> >> >> Paul >> >> On 22/01/18 12:24, Neil wrote: >>> In my recent thread about Linux training several people said that having >>> a copy of a Linux distro on a USB for demo purposes was a good idea. I >>> have been wondering about that for some time, and now I am looking into >>> the idea more thoroughly. >>> >>> As usual, the problem is which package to use for this. Someone >>> mentioned to me recently that unetbootin can create a live version of >>> Linux on a USB stick. I have used that package many times, and I can't >>> find anything about that. Also, I have read that there are better and >>> safer packages for this than unetbootin. >>> >>> Another program I have come across recently is etcher. As usual this has >>> both good and bad reviews. I have downloaded it, but not tried it yet. >>> >>> Then, in the training thread, some people mentioned a program called >>> e2b. This appears to stand for easy to boot. I have looked it up on >>> line, and it seems to be a bit complicated. >>> >>> I would like to set up a USB stick with a live version of Linux on it. >>> But I would also like it to keep any changes made, so that each time I >>> used it, the distro would be up to date. >>> >>> If anyone can point me in the right direction I will have a go. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Neil >>> >>> > > -- http://www.zleap.net diaspora : zleap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Torbay Tech Jam http://torbaytechjam.org.uk Next Tech jam 2nd Saturday of the month -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq