AnonymousOctober 19, 2014 at 10:01 AM
great OS ,but how to install on usb?installer wount show my usb. but there listed in home directory?could dd to one but would like to have persistence.Thanks
4MLinuxOctober 19, 2014 at 11:01 AM
One can use UNetbootin to create 4MLinux Live USB. This is the only method to run 4MLinux from a removable USB disk.
So in other words the only other way would be to install as if the USB drive is a hard drive using ext 4 like I do with some of my Linux BBQ installs better than save file anyway.
@Darren Hale, I like your idea, but I couldn't get it to work. With USB stick formatted either FAT32 or ext4, the 4MLinux live CD would not recognize the stick when plugged in. I got the same results on a couple of different computers. The command "lsusb" returned no new values to show the stick. Gparted reported, "could not stat /dev/sdf" with the stick installed, so it sort of saw it, I guess. That error did not appear if the stick was not plugged in when starting Gparted.
I do like 4MLinux though... it is VERY FAST using Joe's Window Manager (JWM). It was a bit of a hassle to get the WiFi going, but of course all of that info would be saved on a HDD install. It's a shame that persistence doesn't work on this distro. I tried Unetbootin and PendriveLinux also, but the no-go was expected from them already.
Yes the method may not work with every distro. Mind you it was Debian based ones to be fair which I tried.
As for Puppie's frugal install it its b------------------------------ awful. I had always tried full installs but the usb frugal installs were a pain with the savefile filling up and needing to enlarge it and then needing to do it again when you installed some stuff.
