Jerry & minesheep. thanks for your help--minesheep--I WILL try your way soon, but Jerry's link worked fine.
I'm marking this solved. The link Jerry provided worked perfectly--I followed it and it installed, had persistence, AND most importantly it installed updates with NO problems.
The only hiccup was in a line at the start: sudo apt install --install-recommends mkusb mkusb-nox usb-pack-efi I removed the " --install-recommends" and it all worked then.
The updates had 413 gets from numerous locations. When I installed mksub it also had some quite a few gets and I 1 point it told me to use autoremove to remove some. after that is was all downhill
After the updates my df -h is:
Welcome to Linux Lite 4.4 linux
Tuesday 04 June 2019, 10:00:14
Memory Usage: 456/3871MB (11.78%)
Disk Usage: 3/14GB (30%)
Support -
https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/ (Right click, Open Link)
linux ~ sudo apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 mypaint-brushes
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 46.3 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 289536 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libwebkitgtk-1.0-0:amd64 (2.4.11-3ubuntu3) ...
Removing libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0:amd64 (2.4.11-3ubuntu3) ...
Removing mypaint-brushes (1.3.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
linux ~ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 388M 2.9M 385M 1% /run
/dev/sdb4 1.4G 1.4G 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/loop0 1.3G 1.3G 0 100% /rofs
/cow 14G 3.8G 8.9G 30% /
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 1.9G 32K 1.9G 1% /tmp
tmpfs 388M 12K 388M 1% /run/user/999
/dev/sda5 54G 37G 18G 69% /media/linux/Data
linux ~
Thanks again for the great help,
Ron