Create a Linux Persistent USB - Use Linux Anywhere with a Persistent Disk!! Easy Beginner Guide.

How tf do I do this on mac lol

Hi sir, I regularly watch your video and learn different things. I am a beginner in cybersecurity field. Recently l made a bootable 64 GB pendrive with persistance to install kali linux but When I start my hp laptop boot menu these writing is shown there......

1)USB Hard Drive(UEFI) -VendorCoProductCode(VendorCoProductCode)

2) OS Boot Manager(UEFI)-Windows Boot Manager ( AZ-nvme-A1000-128GB)

3)Boot From EFI

And then when I enter first option then this pou up was shown------

Minimal BASH- like line editing is supported. For the first word,
TAB list possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB list possible devices or file completions.
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I want a solution of this problem. Plz help me and I will be grateful to you sir.

I can't believe it worked🎉

Thanks!

I thought fat32 could only see 4gb, if so why did you use 27 gb for the persistent file?

Year 2023, noted the updated types of persistent-Live linux USB-flash boot.

Reply to Linux-Meme
= a few videos of double-click and center-button usage

BIOS boot order = detect and use as default or move to next option.

Option 1 = Blu-ray optical (no disc present)
Option 2 = USB (not plugged-in)
Option 3 = SATA 0,1 (always empty and never used)
Option 4 = SATA 2,3 (3 may be present with bootable-flag but boot partition points to USB as boot-volume containing boot-manager
Option 5 = NVME yours
Option 6 = SSD not-yours

Ok, plug in-out USB

Even after 2 years it's still a very helpful video and I've watched a lot of the latest videos but none of them explained how much persistence storage I needed.
Thanks for the help 🎉👍👌

I see this video is a few years old so was wondering if you've heard of Ventoy for creating usb stick, it doesn't create a stick for one iso it creates a boot environment that allows you to just drop multiple iso's on to it that you just chose from at its boot screen. ie..you can have every version of windows on one large usb stick or multiple flavors of linux. Ofcourse its not a viable solution for this particular setup its a very nice program for basic boot usb usage.

such a great video a question i did ths on my usb drive and ubuntu was very slow when opening apps, will this method work on linux mint since its a lightweight os?

Amazing

Cant you encrypt the whole drive?

I tried this with MX Linux 21.3 using Etcher (back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth), then LiveUSB Maker and lately Rufus. On a 64GB stick in case space is the issue. The issue isn't space. I need to save settings such as language, keyboard etc, as mentioned in a comment below by J North. But this never. Ever. Ever. Ever. works. Persistence, Live remaster, partitions of different names, reboots. Nothing.

Ty this is a very clear and well explained tutorial even for a beginner Linux user like myself. I'm going to share this to my fellow students.

This doesn't work with the majority of Linux distros. It'll just boot up as a normal live USB

Excellent and helpful video thanks.

Is it possible to change Boot Option #2 as a persistent disk instead of changing Boot Option #1 as demonstrated in the video? I am concerned that changing Boot Option #1 may cause me to lose my Windows OS as a prioritized (default) operating system of my laptop. And if I choose Boot Option #2 as a persistent disk, what differences can I expect in comparison to the method shown in the video? Thank you!

Can I make a live usb of fedora with persitent storage, using this method?

Well done video. You are one of many helpful people in the Linux community, and it's wonderful to find you. I will try this for TinyCore Linux on an old low spec PC just for fun. That PC needs a helper to boot a USB, and I use a Plop CD for that, as said, just for fun. Kudos!

Are installed programs remain too and how can I encrypt whole persistent usb live ?

Thx for 1-1 exp 👌🏻