Live pen drive not working as expected

[Marcelo Ruiz]

Hi!

I prepared a live pen drive for a friend that wanted to try Ubuntu 11.10 x64, and I faced the following issues:

* When making the live pen drive from Startup Disk Creator, also from Ubuntu 11.10 x64, it did not give me the option to create a persistence file (the slide bar was greyed out). The pen drive creates fine, but with no persistence file.

* I tried to created it from Ubuntu 10.10 x64, and although it gave me the option and I could set the persistence file, the pen drive does not save any changes (so persistence is not working).

* I finally tried UNetbootin from Windoez 7, and also gave me the option to create the persistence file, but I had the same result: no changes are saved.

Does anyone know why this is happening? I used to create Ubuntu 10.10 live pen drives with persistence enabled with no problem, but with 11.10 seems impossible.
Thanks all!

Marcelo.

[marinara]

please file a bug

[The Cog]

What size was the pen? I have noticed that it won't offer persistence on a 1G pen but it will on a 2G pen.

[DarkAz]

Greetings, I have a similar issue.

I'm using a 4GB pen drive, which works "fine" (except dieing on occasion after a couple of boots) with Ubuntu and Xubuntu. However, Lubuntu decided it wanted none of that and doesn't save any changes.

Is the Lubuntu LiveUSB in anyway different than the other versions?