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Mike Easter wrote:

Next I want to figure out how to have the Mageia
.iso on an SSD and its persistence (I guess in the form of a partition)
on SSD.

This is a f/up to a thread I started in May at which time I went thru'
some 'distraction' in learning about some Mageia behaviors in the live.

I decided that the Mag isodumper and the default Mageia behavior in its acceptance/treatment of USB as an /optical/ wasn't going to be
compatible w/ my creating a SSD-loaded Mageia as a persistent live.

But the good news is that I do have a Mag XFCE on USB created w/ Mag's isodumper as persistent, and the persistence is better than some types
of persistence which only 'leave'/save some storage space available, but
do NOT allow one to build a persistent 'system'. Back then I illustrated
that w/ the diskinfo of the isodumper usb

https://al.howardknight.net/?ID=175417191500

From: Mike Easter
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mageia
Subject: Re: Isodumper persistence
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 09:08:06 -0700
Message-ID: <m86nj6Fksu2U1@mid.individual.net>

As I mentioned a coupla' months ago, there are 'tricky' Ventoy methods
for the distro/s which allow persistence such as Puppy and MX to get a *better* persistence than Ventoy's 'simple' storage persistence.

I haven't yet figured out if anything about that strategy can be applied
to Mageia or not.

HK has been having some trouble lately; it isn't that much to paste the diskinfo here again:

--- /dev/sdc
Block device, size 14.55 GiB (15623782400 bytes)
GRUB boot loader, unknown compat version 121
DOS/MBR partition map
Partition 2: 4 MiB (4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors from 7083320)
Type 0xEF (EFI System (FAT))
FAT12 file system (hints score 5 of 5)
Volume size 3.977 MiB (4169728 bytes, 2036 clusters of 2 KiB)
Volume name "MGAISO-ESP"
Partition 3: 11.17 GiB (11992563712 bytes, 23422976 sectors from 7092224)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Ext4 file system
Volume name "mgalive-persist"
UUID 389F85CA-F248-491A-A856-2A7ABAC75F02 (DCE, v4)
Last mounted at "/"
Volume size 11.17 GiB (11992563712 bytes, 2927872 blocks of 4 KiB)
ISO9660 file system
Volume name "Mageia-9-Live-Xfce-x86_64"
Publisher "MAGEIA.ORG"
Preparer "DRAKISO"
Application "GNU XORRISO 1.5.2"
Data size 3.378 GiB (3626659840 bytes, 1770830 blocks of 2 KiB)
El Torito boot record, catalog at 65
Bootable non-emulated image, starts at 66, preloads 2 KiB
Platform 0x00 (x86), System Type 0x00 (Empty)
Bootable non-emulated image, starts at 1770830, preloads 4 MiB
(4194304 bytes)
Platform 0xEF (EFI), System Type 0x00 (Empty)
FAT12 file system (hints score 5 of 5)
Volume size 3.977 MiB (4169728 bytes, 2036 clusters of 2 KiB)
Volume name "MGAISO-ESP"
Joliet extension, volume name "Mageia-9-Live-Xf"
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I like live disto + persistence (of the right kind, not just 'some
data'). In the past I've been happy w/ Linux Mint + dus/mkusb, but
recent LM and mkusb didn't get along, requiring me to shift that to an
install on SSD.

I've been able to put MX on a Ventoy SSD + an SSD persistence and Puppy Bookworm 64 on a combo of Ventoy USB + ssd persistence, but not Easy OS.

Today was my first go at Mageia's and I was disappointed that the
isodumper's file manager wouldn't let me use a Ventoy USB live Mageia 9
XFCE to access its .iso from another device; but I managed to get
things situated after some trial and error by using the partitioned USB
to boot Mageia live and add the isodumper and then write to a different
USB w/ the isodumper. Next I want to figure out how to have the Mageia
.iso on an SSD and its persistence (I guess in the form of a partition)
on SSD.

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Mike Easter wrote:

Today was my first go at Mageia's

Oops; sig fix.
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Mike Easter wrote:

Next I want to figure out how to have the Mageia
.iso on an SSD and its persistence (I guess in the form of a partition)
on SSD.

Here's the structure of a persistent live on a 16G USB from diskinfo:

--- /dev/sdc
Block device, size 14.55 GiB (15623782400 bytes)
GRUB boot loader, unknown compat version 121
DOS/MBR partition map
Partition 2: 4 MiB (4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors from 7083320)
Type 0xEF (EFI System (FAT))
FAT12 file system (hints score 5 of 5)
Volume size 3.977 MiB (4169728 bytes, 2036 clusters of 2 KiB)
Volume name "MGAISO-ESP"
Partition 3: 11.17 GiB (11992563712 bytes, 23422976 sectors from 7092224)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Ext4 file system
Volume name "mgalive-persist"
UUID 389F85CA-F248-491A-A856-2A7ABAC75F02 (DCE, v4)
Last mounted at "/"
Volume size 11.17 GiB (11992563712 bytes, 2927872 blocks of 4 KiB)
ISO9660 file system
Volume name "Mageia-9-Live-Xfce-x86_64"
Publisher "MAGEIA.ORG"
Preparer "DRAKISO"
Application "GNU XORRISO 1.5.2"
Data size 3.378 GiB (3626659840 bytes, 1770830 blocks of 2 KiB)
El Torito boot record, catalog at 65
Bootable non-emulated image, starts at 66, preloads 2 KiB
Platform 0x00 (x86), System Type 0x00 (Empty)
Bootable non-emulated image, starts at 1770830, preloads 4 MiB
(4194304 bytes)
Platform 0xEF (EFI), System Type 0x00 (Empty)
FAT12 file system (hints score 5 of 5)
Volume size 3.977 MiB (4169728 bytes, 2036 clusters of 2 KiB)
Volume name "MGAISO-ESP"
Joliet extension, volume name "Mageia-9-Live-Xf"
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Of some interest, when Win Rufus (older v on W7) was asked to write the
.iso to a USB, it noted that the Mageia hybrid 'condition' was
unconventional (or some word, maybe not recognized) so it was going to
need to write as dd, one of its options. And, when I try to examine the
USB w/ such as gparted, it just sees the iso9660 partition as that,
without more information; whereas such as 'Disks' in linux mint or the diskdrake in Mageia can see the 9660 part better, such as above diskinfo.

And, I've found a page linked from the wiki on live persistence about
custom peristence.

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23654#c5
Martin Whitaker 2018-10-09 21:57:58 CEST

It can help if a manual process of the creation of persistence is described >> here.

I've just done it like this:

... and follows a useful conversation w/ others.
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Mike Easter wrote:

'Disks' in linux mint

= gnome-disk-utility
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