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Persisting changes on Lubunto 12.10 run from LiveCD

How to save changes (and later recover) to a LiveCD-run Ubuntu (run from CD-ROM, not from USB), including configuration changes, installed and updated packages and copied files, using USB pendrive or ...
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Live USB persistence

I tried creating a live USB with the default Ubuntu disk creator and the Windows version of Universal-usb-installer and they both work fine except persistence doesn't seem to work. For example, I ...
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Will “persistent” data from USB “try Ubuntu” be saved when I install it to my laptop? [duplicate]

I'm using Quantal from a USB stick (created with Linux Live USB Creator) with persistence. If at a later I choose to install Ubuntu to a laptop (using the "Install" icon) will my changes be included ...
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Linux installation specific questions not answered online?

I need to know if i create a Live usb bootable distro with persistence files, can i later use the usb to install the distro to the hard drive? If so will the persistence files install the distro in ...
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Can I “refill” the persistence?

I've just created a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Live USB with persistence (3GB) on a 4GB USB flash drive. I was wondering whether I could install a program (or a file, something that takes up space) and then ...
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Will a live usb with persistence store files automatically?

I'm not even sure if i worded my question right but, I'm familiarizing myself with Ubuntu and want to install it on a new desktop I just finished putting together so I'm trying it on my laptop via ...
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Can I make an existing Live USB Persistent?

I'd really love to make my Ubuntu USB persistent. I've tried every possible thing on the internet I could find that I was able to do. (I'm on OS X.) I've gone through easily 36 hours of constant ...
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Trouble With Persistence After Making a USB Live Thumb Drive Using Pendrivelinux

I created a bootable Ubuntu on my 32GB thumb drive (on a NTFS partition) and I selected a persistence of 4GB. I've noticed that when I reboot from the initial booting off of the USB thumb drive, ...
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How to create and use casper-rw in different USB with a live usb

I have created an Ubuntu Live USB using pendrive's Universal USB Installer. I found a link about creating the casper-rw but it's for a Live CD at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence. ...
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Barebones Live USB Environment?

I would like to create a persistent Lubuntu Live USB with just Google Chrome and Libreoffice on my 4GB USB stick. How would I go about doing this?
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Live USB with encrypted persistent store

Is it possible to boot Ubuntu from USB and have it store the changes to settings, created files and installed apps in an enrypted file located on the HDD that is mounted at boot? If so will the ...
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Live-Ubuntu 12.04 ran fine, now stopped booting!

I've seen similar problems to this several times in the forum, but mine is a bit different, so the other posts I saw were no help to me. When I boot Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit from live-SD-card (3GB ...
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install to USB without touching windows MBR [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I install Ubuntu to a USB key? How do I get a live-USB to use a partition for persistence? I would like as full of an install as possible (most notably no ...
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Why isn't persistence working on Lubuntu 12.04 Live-USB?

I have used Universal-USB-Installer ever since to install different Linux versions to USB flash drive. But now with Lubuntu 12.04 even though I do the same process by selecting persistence file, it ...
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Will the data from my persistent Live-USB automatically transfer when I install?

I have a Live USB of Lubuntu 12.04. I have been working with it for quite some time now and have installed quite a few packages in it. Now, I want to convert this to an actual install. When I do so, ...
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Difference between LiveCD, LiveUSB, full-install, and persistence?

I am currently running Ubuntu as a guest vm on a Win 7 host via VirtualBox, but I would like to have a portable version of Ubuntu when I am not using my laptop. I am unsure as to the difference ...
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10.04 32bit on live usb with persistence and Nvidia Cuda programming work?

I installed 12.04 on my Laptop, finally took forever to find help. but im want to do cuda programming on my laptop, maybe even my desktop, but i dont want to install the developer driver on those ...
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Why doesn't my live USB save settings, even though I have a persistence file?

I have just made a Live USB of Ubuntu 12.04 on a 4 GB stick. I made it in startup disk creator in 10.04 and set the persistence file to 3 GB. But for some reason it doesn't save my settings on ...
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Are there any data migration tools?

I'm trying to migrate a laptop's HDD to another HDD. I'm trying to find a way to use Ubuntu Live USB with persistence and run tools such as this! I tried disc copy bootable linux distro, didn't work. ...
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Live USB data gets lost on Restart

I am crawling some data using Apache Nutch and storing it on my USB Drive. The OS itself is Ubuntu Live Boot OS. But for every restart or shutdown I am losing my data. I also tried suspending my ...
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If I Have a Live USB with Persistence, if I install it, will the persistence be included

Let's say I want to take a live USB with persistence, boot into it, get it all setup then install it. Will all my features still be there? If not, is there a way to do this?
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Help with persistence

Every time I get to a certain stage of installing either the wireless drivers, or FBReader, or VLC when my system hangs or crashes. ?Then on reboot, I am asked for a password by Ubuntu, which I don't ...