Comment 4 for bug 1216712

Hallo Geza,

I understand that you are very busy right now, on your homepage I could see that you have started your PhD studies (Congratulations and wish you all the best!! :-). Great to hear that you will, nevertheless, want to investigate this issue in the near future! And in the meantime I will try out this 512mb file and put it into the unetbtn folder, the root "/" folder and the C: drive (called "cd-rom" drive in linux mint Live session, but has nothing to do with cd-rom).

I think that the issue on hand might have to do with some paths in some linux mint system files that link to incorrect/nonexistent files/folders/directories in mint, given that unetbootin was actually created to work with ubuntu directly, and given that persistency was actually thought to work with users who boot live sessons from USB stick and not HDD, as it seems.

I'm sure all it might take to fix this problem would be to know which files and folders to edit in order to point unetbootin and the unetbootin or distro bootloader to the right direction and the right files specific to the specific distro used by the user. So users could then, no matter what ubuntu-based distro, change the specific file names and paths inside files and adjust these files and folders to suit their distro!

Also, what I would like to know is how can I increase the File System / root folder in my linux mint live session, as it is only 1GB, but I have 6GB available on my C drive, and 2 GB RAM ? Is there a way to increase the File System folder to 2GB, since by using the live system, this file system folder gets filled up rather quickly and the system breaks down/freezes when there is only a 1 GB file system folder...?

Look forward to hearing from you. Have a good day/evening.

Best regards,

Tom

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 From: Geza Kovacs <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Monday, 26 August 2013, 3:51
Subject: [Bug 1216712] Re: PERSISTENT Frugal install NOT SAVING FILES AND SETTING

err yes I did mean copying the casper-rw file over to C:\ , surprised
that didn't work. or perhaps put it casper-rw onto the root of a USB
drive. or download http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/diskimg/512mb.zip
and unzip casper-rw from it and try using that instead. maybe the latest
linux mint changed something about how it handles persistency, I'll take
a look at it sometime next month or so, rather busy right now.

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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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