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In a live version of Linux, how do I save a web page, text note, or picture to the flash drive?
I've been exploring Linux in the last couple months, but still have a great deal to learn, including some real basics. For example, in both Linux Mint, and Pinguy OS, the two distros I've used, I can't seem to figure out how to save user files to the flash drive on which Linux resides. (I created a live bootable flash drive with both distros on it.)
I created a folder for this purpose (named simply "Created By Me") on the flash drive. But whenever I try to save something to it I get an error message saying something like I don't have permission to change that folder, or the folder is non-writeable and I have to change that first. And a file containing notes to myself, also in that folder, is un-editable in Linux. I can open and view it, but not change it.
After seeing this "permissions" or "read-only" message the first time, I connected the flash drive to a Windows machine, right-clicked on that folder and saw that it was indeed marked as read-only. I changed that (I thought), but am still getting this error message in Linux.
One other thing I've noticed is that I *am* able to save pictures from websites, but I'm not really sure where they go. Evidently to the hard drive of the computer, not to the flash drive.
Jerry, I'm somewhat familiar with the concept of persistence, but haven't seemed to be able to get it working yet, and it's frustrating. I first used a live-USB creator called Unetbootin and designated at least a few hundred MB for what I later learned was persistence. But I made the mistake of trying to update Linux Mint on the flash drive, and I may have messed it all up. At about the same time I decided I wanted to put *multiple* distros and utilities on one drive (evidently unlike Unetbootin), so I began searching for a program that could do that for me without my having to learn too much. I first explored XBoot but learned it hadn't been updated in a while, then used YUMI. The latter worked beautifully to create a multiboot flash drive, on which I included the two distros I mentioned at the top, Hiren's Boot CD, a couple of antivirus rescue disks and more. I feel pretty sure that when I was setting up the Mint install, I was offered persistence and designa
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designated 2 GB of space to the 32 GB hard drive for just that purpose. But whether I'm in Mint or in Pinguy OS, I can't seem to save anything except to the hard drive.
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- jerry tLv 77 years ago
You have to use a version of the program that write linux to the usb drive that has persistence. Persistence will allow you to save your work with the live version of linux. You can use any of these free programs to create a live linux usb with persistence:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/what-is-persistent-li...
http://www.linuxliveusb.com/help3/guide3/step3
http://lifehacker.com/5574276/universal-usb-instal...
It is also possible to change the permissions on those directories but without more specific info it would be hard to give specific instructions on how to do it.