04-13-2015, 03:30 PM
Hi gold_finger,
Thanks for your comprehensive tutorial. I have used this method before from memory, but nevertheless, repeated your steps just to check, and, as expected, this method worked fine.
Unetbootin seems to be the preferred option and I have had more success with it than startup disk creator. However, booting from unetbootin displays 2 identical menus and then a third which is a condensed version, prior to displaying the LL feather logo. Not sure why, but this is the reason I've preferred startup disk creator, as it boots straight to the feather logo, which avoids a "why" question from new users. So, first test successful.
I'll try replicating using startup disk creator and see if the result is the same. I think there is a problem when using gparted to shrink the fat32 partition to it's minimum and creating an ext2 casper-rw at the same time. It may be as simple as leaving a bit of space in the fat32 partition as you suggest and not labeling the ext2, until the install to the fat32 is done.
My difficulties seem to stem from reusing sticks which somehow get corrupted. All in all, the straightforward method you outline looks best at this point. More testing on my part, but I still think gparted has difficulty with fat32 resizing, at least in the latest version.
On the plus side, I have today introduced 2 more users to LL and successfully created usb sticks with persistence, but using startup disk creator. However, I used brand new sticks, which startup disk creator seems to have no difficulty with. It's when I re-use these sticks that problems emerge.
And on an entirely different matter. What is your opinion of usb sticks. I have quite a few different brands. Some, though are very slow, whilst others are markedly faster. I thought they were all basically the same speed, unlike SD cards which have the speed numbers printed on them. 10 being the fastest, as far as I'm aware. Is there a way to tell which is a fast stick.
Have you tried installing LL or any other distro to an SD card and would this be a better/faster option.
And just another point which may be outside your field. I load Googleearth (same version) on all the computers I set up, as the users like this program. In LL, however, it is extremely slow to the point of being unusable. There are lost pixels in the display, which I'm unable to correct.
I think it's an LL problem, as booting Mint13 with GE installed, and on the same machines, is perfect and fluid. Only plays up in LL.
BTW, in LL and in Firefox and running "showmystreet" which uses Google maps, the display is perfect. So I think the video driver is well capable of displaying the maps, but LL must be choosing an incorrect driver. I don't know how to force GE to use a different driver. Any thoughts on this. I did post about this some time back, but replies were unhelpful and the problem remains unsolved.
Cheers for now!
Thanks for your comprehensive tutorial. I have used this method before from memory, but nevertheless, repeated your steps just to check, and, as expected, this method worked fine.
Unetbootin seems to be the preferred option and I have had more success with it than startup disk creator. However, booting from unetbootin displays 2 identical menus and then a third which is a condensed version, prior to displaying the LL feather logo. Not sure why, but this is the reason I've preferred startup disk creator, as it boots straight to the feather logo, which avoids a "why" question from new users. So, first test successful.
I'll try replicating using startup disk creator and see if the result is the same. I think there is a problem when using gparted to shrink the fat32 partition to it's minimum and creating an ext2 casper-rw at the same time. It may be as simple as leaving a bit of space in the fat32 partition as you suggest and not labeling the ext2, until the install to the fat32 is done.
My difficulties seem to stem from reusing sticks which somehow get corrupted. All in all, the straightforward method you outline looks best at this point. More testing on my part, but I still think gparted has difficulty with fat32 resizing, at least in the latest version.
On the plus side, I have today introduced 2 more users to LL and successfully created usb sticks with persistence, but using startup disk creator. However, I used brand new sticks, which startup disk creator seems to have no difficulty with. It's when I re-use these sticks that problems emerge.
And on an entirely different matter. What is your opinion of usb sticks. I have quite a few different brands. Some, though are very slow, whilst others are markedly faster. I thought they were all basically the same speed, unlike SD cards which have the speed numbers printed on them. 10 being the fastest, as far as I'm aware. Is there a way to tell which is a fast stick.
Have you tried installing LL or any other distro to an SD card and would this be a better/faster option.
And just another point which may be outside your field. I load Googleearth (same version) on all the computers I set up, as the users like this program. In LL, however, it is extremely slow to the point of being unusable. There are lost pixels in the display, which I'm unable to correct.
I think it's an LL problem, as booting Mint13 with GE installed, and on the same machines, is perfect and fluid. Only plays up in LL.
BTW, in LL and in Firefox and running "showmystreet" which uses Google maps, the display is perfect. So I think the video driver is well capable of displaying the maps, but LL must be choosing an incorrect driver. I don't know how to force GE to use a different driver. Any thoughts on this. I did post about this some time back, but replies were unhelpful and the problem remains unsolved.
Cheers for now!