#Lunix make ram disk persistant how to#
#Lunix make ram disk persistant install#

if the USB disk was not recognized, try to install the guest additions.where you should see device named sda1, the USB flash disk.Check if the USB flash disk have been mounted and is correctly recognized within the VM machine (it is required and without it we can not proceed). Start your VM machine that will boot as the Live Linux.finally, go to USB settings and map the USB flash disk to your VM.setup Network and set the network as bridged or Nat- ed over your PC real net adapter, as the installation process will download some files.go to Storage and map your preferred Linux ISO image to the Optical drive.inside of Display and set more Video Memory as 16MB, for example max 128MB.on the Processor tab you may assign more vCPU as one.on the Motherboard tab check or change the booting order, where the Optical drive CD has to be before Hard Disk.

open VM Settings and set for your VM following parameters:.The machine bool like a live distro and after we will complete the installation of OS on USB we delete the VM. Using the VirtualBox create a new VM with following settings.We create a new Virtual Machine that will have attached live iso image inside of its CD, attached USB key as a permanent storage where we will install the OS (after live boot|. and finally, of course, some USB flash disk.Dowloaded your preferred Linux OS iso image, we use it for the installation, as i said, i will use Mint 19.3 XFCE 64-bit.Installed Oracle WM VirtualBox with installed virtualbox extension pack (it is required for the USB version 2 support).So, what we will need? My environment consist of : I will use again Mint (19.3 вЂњTriciaвЂќ вЂ“ Xfce (64-bit)). This guide is is an shorter update of the article Installing full LinuxMint 17.1 to a removable USB drive with Virtual Box in Windows 7 and it works with any Linux OS.

#Lunix make ram disk persistant how to#

I will describe how to do it using the VirtualBox tool, that looks more safety for me as I will not work with a real host computer disk drives.

There are several ways how to do it, for example using two usb keys, or making a bootable live USB key and then performing the installation (as is for example decribed here How to Install Linux OS on USB Drive and Run it On Any PC ). The system is fully operable OS and transferable to any PC with all your installed and saved stuff. the system does not lost your files after a reboot as usual live distribution does. This guide will describe how to install a full Linux OS on an USB flash disk with permanent storage feature, i.e.