How to make a persistent statler live USB key (Page 2 of 2)

I have been reading and following this thread and had the USB Statler working but the persistent part didn't seem to be working. So when I came back and read more I edited the syslinux.cfg file and now when I boot the USB it wants a username and password. Here is the default menu:

label unetbootindefault
menu label Default
kernel /live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live live-config live-config.hostname=crunchbang live-config.username=hal live-config.user-fullname=CrunchBangLiveUser live-config.locales=en_US.UTF-8 live-config.timezone=United States/Chicago quiet persistent

How do I keep it from wanting the username and password?

Thanks,
Harold

Thanks, slapfish.
This is probably a newbie question but how do I do that if I can't log in to it? Do I do it from the menu like I was setting up a root password?

Yeah, I forgot about crunchbang and live. Thanks again, Harold

edit
I can't get in with crunchbang and live or with crunchbang and ENTER. Nothing I have tried has worked.

I will just start over. At least I am more comfortable with how to do it. Practice makes perfect.;)

I don't remember creating a username and password.

Last edited by houndhen (2010-09-02 21:52:44)

Hi,  I tried your howto and it works fine, thanks !

Do you know out to disabled this line after halting the computer :
please remove the usb flash drive and press ENTER to continue

In your desktop linux installation you must mount the thumbdrive's fat partition with read and write permissons. Otherwise you won't be able to edit any files in there.

little helper from my /etc/fstab:

/dev/sdb1       /media/usb0     auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

replace /dev/sdb1 with whatever ID your thumbdrive has and make sure the mount directory (in my case /media/usb0) exists. Then you can mount it by typing mount followed with drive id. ie.

mount /dev/sdb1

alternatively you can mount it without editing fstab by:

mount -t vfat -o rw,umask=0007 /dev/sdb1 /mnt

I don't know if or how fdisk can create partitions (I'm guessing it can as it could on ms/dr-dos) but you can create the partitions with gparted, leave them unformatted and then on terminal use the fdisk command to format them as the first post indicates.

Works great.  i figured out the size thing.  thanks!

Yes, curious minds want to know.
Seems like I heard somewhere that it doesn't.

I'll try installing #!-Xfce first on a 4GB stick with a 300MB swap and all the rest, ext2, as /.
Probably be OK to use ext3, but I wanted all the free disk space possible.
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1             3.4G  2.1G  1.2G  64% /
tmpfs                1009M     0 1009M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                 1002M  224K 1002M   1% /dev
tmpfs                1009M  284K 1009M   1% /dev/shm

Edit: Worked fine. A bit slow writing on the Kingston. Posting from the USB.
Now to see how it acts after another reboot.

Remember to mount the local harddisk. Need to add /mnt/win, /mnt/data, /mnt/os to the USB file system for mounting as needed. Persistence should be a given, since it's installed.

Last edited by Richard (2011-07-24 03:31:59)