unetbootin not responding setting up persistence

#UNETBOOTIN NOT RESPONDING SETTING UP PERSISTENCE INSTALL#
#UNETBOOTIN NOT RESPONDING SETTING UP PERSISTENCE DRIVER#

Since this is a live USB, not an installation stored on a USB drive, you should not allow automatic updates of any kind.

#UNETBOOTIN NOT RESPONDING SETTING UP PERSISTENCE INSTALL#

One caveat, installing the Synaptic Package Manager may reset Software & Updates> Updates to automatically download and install updates.

Once rebooted, and everything you previously added or configured shows as working, you are free to go on adding things which I definitely did. I then rebooted, pulling the wireless dongle out of its USB port. I used the terminal to install synaptic package manager. I then added it to my backgrounds and set it to be my desktop background.

Next I copied a wallpaper from my hard drive to the live USB Pictures folder.

#UNETBOOTIN NOT RESPONDING SETTING UP PERSISTENCE DRIVER#

Next I installed a broadcom wireless driver by entering the following into the mate terminal. I initially set mate to the traditional user interface using mate-tweak to get a desktop that I prefer. Now plug your newly made persistent drive into any computer and check if it really does store data and settings across reboots (Every single one of mine does).Īt first boot, it is very important to have either an ethernet cable plugged in or a wireless dongle that's known to work in order to get something that you want to have installed on your live USB. Once back into 18.04, I edited the Unetbootin syslinux.cfg file to include svideo=SVIDEO-1:d right after quiet splash in order to boot into the live USB on this particular laptop. Unetbootin is slow to watch doing its thing on an old laptop but you should patiently wait it out.ĭon't prematurely stop Unetbootin until it is entirely done as shown below: You should have an empty freshly formatted fat 32 bit USB key plugged in and ready to use. When you've done that, your dialog box should look something like the one below: This allows the entire flash drive to be used as persistent storage. ISO file that you've already downloaded) and find it using the three dots selection box. The screenshot below shows what Unetbootin looks like when you launch it: It requires superuser rights in order to properly run. If you plan on using this utility more than once, it would be nice if you used mozo (System> Control Center> Look and Feel> Main Menu) to check and perhaps edit Unetbootin's properties to include pkexec just before /usr/bin/unetbootin which launches Unetbootin. You can also create a persistent live USB that allows you to save settings, install a needed wireless driver, and configure your live USB as you see fit. Once you have added the ppa to your system and downloaded and installed Unetbootin, you can use it to create a bootable live USB.

There is a questions/answers section for those with problems of one sort or another. The ppa has versions for bionic and previous. You can find Unetbootin at the following ppa.

Unetbootin not responding setting up persistence