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- Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:03 pm
- Forum: MX Help
- Topic: Experimental frugal install
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1262
Re: Experimental frugal install
Haven't tried frugal installation in a loooong time, does it add an entry to UEFI? fehlix covered how a frugal install modifies the system, namely it adds a directory to an existing partition and copies files into it. That's it. No partitioning, no creating file systems, no modifications of any boo...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:27 am
- Forum: MX Help
- Topic: Experimental frugal install
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1262
Re: Experimental frugal install
Welcome! :party2: I think the problem was I was booting the .iso from a grml-rescueboot folder in Debian. It booted fine and I could have done a regular file directory install, but the frugal installer didn't like whatever parameters I was choosing and I tried a few different options. Yes, a frugal...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:54 pm
- Forum: MX Help
- Topic: Securely delete all data on external SSD [Solved]
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2108
Re: Securely delete all data on external SSD [Solved]
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX conv=noerror,sync,notrunc status=progress It's also possible to add , say, bs=1M or say 4M to make it faster, but without that (the above way) will be "bit-for-bit" (perfect).. ...Just change the /dev/zero to /dev/random (when needed) and of=/dev/sdX to wh...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:30 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Easy iso mount?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1094
Re: Easy iso mount?
Compared to the command @Adrian gave, the isomount mounts the ISO at /mnt/iso and the isoumount also doesn't remove the folders it created, but I would hasten to say it is not at all a bad thing because /mnt/iso can be recycled the next time the isomount tool is used. One area where isomount is sup...
- Wed Apr 05, 2023 3:50 am
- Forum: MX Fluxbox Official Release
- Topic: Where is the frugal installation persistent data? [Solved]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 869
Re: Where is the frugal installation persistent data? [Solved]
Yes! You've got it! We tried hard to prevent the live system from doing stupid, destructive things to the system it runs on. For example, while our live-usb-maker will repartition the target device, we try to make sure that device is removable and not currently in use. The frugal install is even mor...
- Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:01 am
- Forum: MX Help
- Topic: live kernel updater [Solved]
- Replies: 5
- Views: 378
Re: live kernel updater [Solved]
You need to remaster after installing the new kernel. The reason for this requirement is to ensure all the modules for the new kernel are on the system even if persistence is not enabled. If those modules aren't available then booting will fail horribly. It doesn't matter which remaster you use. The...
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 3:51 am
- Forum: Installation
- Topic: fulltime portable OS, LiveUSB creation options
- Replies: 9
- Views: 867
Re: fulltime portable OS, LiveUSB creation options
You can enable (or not enable) persistence on every live boot. You select it from the boot menu. For your system I recommend using static root persistence. The first time you enable persistence it will ask you what size to make the root persistence file. For you I suggest 10 Gig. You can also have p...
- Fri Mar 24, 2023 5:19 am
- Forum: MX Fluxbox Official Release
- Topic: Where is the frugal installation persistent data? [Solved]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 869
Re: Where is the frugal installation persistent data? [Solved]
I discovered that the antiX-Frugal partitition is required because it is where the data is kept, but the confusion arises because that partition is hidden from the running system. I moved the demo and root files within Live-usb-storage which is within the antiX-Frugal partition to hide them. My exp...
- Fri Mar 24, 2023 3:49 am
- Forum: MX Help
- Topic: MX Live usb
- Replies: 1
- Views: 226
Re: MX Live usb
We seem to be losing contact with your keyboard so we no longer see your key presses. It seems strange that it worked for a few questions and then stopped here. Oh well. For now, you should be able to get past this step by using the "persist=auto" boot parameter. This tells the system to a...
- Thu Mar 23, 2023 12:27 am
- Forum: MX Fluxbox Official Release
- Topic: Where is the frugal installation persistent data? [Solved]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 869
Re: Where is the frugal installation persistent data? [Solved]
Welcome je55eah ! On a live-usb the /live-usb-storage/ directory gives you persistent storage even with no persistence enabled. In the main live file system /root/live-usb-storage/ is bind mounted to /live-usb-storage/root/ (on the usb) and /home/demo/live-usb-storage/ is bind mounted to /live-usb-s...