How do I explicitly save changes when running Kubuntu 17.04 from a live USB? [duplicate]

Solution 1:

You need to create a "Persistent" Live USB. A persistent USB contains a partition where you can save your data, and it will also save changes you make to your Ubuntu.

An excellent tool is mkusb.

Install it using the following.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mkusb mkusb-nox usb-pack-efi

Instructions for using mkusb are here.

Prepare your USB

  1. Launch guidus from launcher
  2. w Wipe a drive
  3. 1 wipe 1 (the first) Mibiyte

Install Ubuntu

  1. Launch guidus from launcher
  2. Select i Install (make a boot device)
  3. Select p 'Persistent live' - only Debian and Ubuntu
  4. Select your USB device (like "sdb" or "sdc")

  5. Select msdos GPT

  6. Select usb-pack-efi (default grub from ISO file). Note, this is for EFI boot.

  7. Select percentage of USB that you want to use for persistence.

  8. Select Go
  9. Click OK to the grub-pc error
  10. Click OK to ... must be fetched from the iso

Create an Admin User

Once you've created your persistent Live USB, you might want to create a new user for your persistent iso, and grant the user sudo (admin) and other privileges:

sudo adduser <user>
sudo usermod -a -G adm,dialout,cdrom,floppy,sudo,audio,dip,video,plugdev,users,lpadmin,sambashare <user>