drzale
September 30th, 2017, 06:37 PM
Hello all. I've been using ubuntu to manage servers via ssh for a while but have little experience with actual installation / partitioning / live boot USB creation, please forgive my noobiness. My macbook pro 2013 early 2015 and the SSD died. In the interim, wanted to just use usb live w/ persistence for basic things, since I still have a desktop for any real work.
I created an initial USB boot from desktop 17.04 image with Live Linux USB Creator on Windows. It loads up like a charm on macbook, and works great, but there was no persistence. Next, I put another usb in (on laptop), and did the Install Ubuntu from desktop of ubuntu to load it on there. Thought this might make persistent by default? The first attempt, after loading up the "real" copy, I kept getting errors related to everything being read only. I thought it might just be a bad stick, and tried doing the same one a different one. This time, it loads up, and I havent seen errors but the UI is immensely slow, like click system config icon in top right, and wait a full minute just for sub menu to load.
After looking through so many guides, all with different recommendations, from manual partitioning (either 1 partition or 2), different versions/flavors of ubuntu, I'm more lost than ever. Anyone have an idea of what I'm doing wrong / or need to do different? Not looking for anything fancy, would be okay with even just the 4 GB of persistent as opposed to using the 16 GB drive was planning to. Any help much appreciated!
I created an initial USB boot from desktop 17.04 image with Live Linux USB Creator on Windows. It loads up like a charm on macbook, and works great, but there was no persistence. Next, I put another usb in (on laptop), and did the Install Ubuntu from desktop of ubuntu to load it on there. Thought this might make persistent by default? The first attempt, after loading up the "real" copy, I kept getting errors related to everything being read only. I thought it might just be a bad stick, and tried doing the same one a different one. This time, it loads up, and I havent seen errors but the UI is immensely slow, like click system config icon in top right, and wait a full minute just for sub menu to load.
After looking through so many guides, all with different recommendations, from manual partitioning (either 1 partition or 2), different versions/flavors of ubuntu, I'm more lost than ever. Anyone have an idea of what I'm doing wrong / or need to do different? Not looking for anything fancy, would be okay with even just the 4 GB of persistent as opposed to using the 16 GB drive was planning to. Any help much appreciated!