[ale] MXLinux install issues

[Wayne]

Hari, if you attempt to format your drive to make a bootable Ventoy drive you will ruin the Linux boot capability, and possibly more. You'll need separate drives for Linux and Ventory.


On 4/21/22 5:31 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha via Ale wrote:
> I have MXLinux live usb on a 8GB SDCard and it runs fine.
> 
> Here is what I am thinking.  (Don't flame me please)
> 
> As per DJPfulio's suggestion, I will use tools like ventoy to create a data partition on the same SD card.
> (yes this was mentioned in last weekend's meetup call and I did make a note but could not connect the dots on its usability since it was mentioned in the context of Multiboot, duh me)
> 
> MXLinux Live is only  1.9GB in size.  I can create a 4GB data partition on the same SD card and use that.
> 
> I also respect Wayne's time posting the 64GB link on Amazon for Lexar with such small form factor.
> 
> -N
> 
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 12:53 PM Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Live Linux with persistence means that distro uses some space on your SD card or flash drive to save your files or configurations.
> 
>     So next times when boots up from save live flash drive would read all these files and get you back to the point where you left.
> 
>     You don't do installation. You run same live Linux distro from same flash card or stick.
> 
>     I never done it on MX Linux
> 
>     But I used it on Puppy Linux 10 years ago and just works.
> 
>     On Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 11:53 DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>         On 4/20/22 10:37, Narahari 'n' Savitha via Ale wrote:
>          > Would love this approach.
>          >
>          > Want to save WiFi config stored.
>          > Do I need one USB with MXLinux Live
>          > and
>          > Another SD card ?
>          >
>          >
>          > OR
>          >
>          > Can the SD card have both Live and persistence together ?
>          >
>          > Any knowhow on this will help me.
>          >
>          > Warm Regards
>          > -N
> 
>         We talked about the tools for this Sunday. You were there.  Look for tools like Ventoy or mkusb that allow creation of 'data' partitions and provide overlay file systems.  A few others were mentioned Sunday by others. We posted them to the chat window too.
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