Comment 2 for bug 1216712

Hi Geza,

Thanks for your quick reply, I appreciat eit. But copying the casper-rw file over to the root of the hard drive does not help, either. Well, I mean I copied it to the standard C harddrive partition (called "cd-rom" in the live session mode of linux mint) where my Unetbootin and unetbtn folders are located, as well as the isolinux/syslinux folder...THIS did not help..

OR do you mean I have to copy the casper-rw file to the "/" called "File System" in linux mint live session? But then I only have 1 GB available space there (I only have 2GB of RAM), so there is no space for my 4GB casper-rw.....or how can I increase the / folder to make it incorporate at least a 1 GB casper-rw file in addition to the 1 GB that the system itself needs?

Thanks in advance.

Tom

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 From: Geza Kovacs <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Monday, 26 August 2013, 0:23
Subject: [Bug 1216712] Re: PERSISTENT Frugal install NOT SAVING FILES AND SETTING

Try copying the casper-rw file over to the root of the hard drive, maybe
that'll work?

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Title:
  PERSISTENT Frugal install NOT SAVING FILES AND SETTING

Status in Universal Netboot Installer:
  New

Bug description:
  Hallo Geza,

  There is a problem regarding your amazing tool, with NO solution on
  the internet, and I already spent 3 days trying to fix it and find a
  solution, but with no avail. Therefore I have no other choice than to
  write you, as you are the creator of the tool:

  Unetbootin is an amazing tool. Especially the frugall install option.
  BUT it's kind of half-baked apparently, as it simply does not work to
  boot a PERSISTENT Linux Mint Live session from HDD, although I
  specifically selected in unetbootin "4096MB space between reboots"...
  I can also see the "casper-rw" file inside the "unetbtn" folder, AND
  in the linux mint boot menu at startup I can see that it added "--
  persistent", but it just does not wanna save my settings and software
  between reboots.

  I read on the internet that I have to change the isolinux.cfg into
  syslinux.cfg. And on the unetbootin homepage
  (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/diskimg/readme.txt)  I could find
  the information that I have to add the following line

  label unetbootin
    menu label Start Persistent Linux Mint Mode
    kernel /ubnkern
    append initrd=/ubninit file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash persistent --

  but it does not work! On the iternet I could also find lots of
  contradictory information as to where to write the word "PERSISTENT"
  in the above line, and no matter where I put it, it simply won't save
  my Linux Mint Live session! Also, I need to know where to put the
  casper-rw file, as at the moment it is locate din the unetbtn folder,
  and I do not know whethe rthat is correct? I mean it's there by
  default, but maybe it should be moved somewhere else?

  Also, changes that I do to the syslinux.cfg above are not seen and
  saved in the boot menu at startup.

  So can you please tell me how to make the persistent Linux Mint Live
  session, that I created with unetbootin, actually work and save???

  Thank you in advance.

  Tom

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