Mec25
			Installing Persistent Linux on a Flash Drive

Having  a bootable Linux system  available for troubleshooting a system or as an operating system that does not interfere with the currently installed operating system is a great tool. Persistants actually means that it is considered a non removable media instead of Removable media such as a CD or Flash Drive. This means the operating system handles this media in a different way. The CD or Flash Drive immage runs in memory and does not save information or changes to the drive  much like Deep Freeze.  In this lab we will Install Linux Mint and create a Persistant drive, much like the C: Drive, on a Flash Drive.

1. Create a linux mint CD from the downloaded ISO file
Set the bios to boot from the CD image. F12
2. Boot from your newly created Linux Mint CD
3. Insert your 16 Gb Flash Drive 
4. Check to see if the drive shows up on the Linux Mint desktop.
5 Click the CD icon on the desktop to install Linux Mint.

6 Select English on the first Menu

7. Do not install 3rd party software at this time

8. answer yes to the question Unmount Partitions

9 Being very carefull to follow directions Select " something else"   Erase disk and install Linux Mint
	Scroll down and select Fat32   - Delete
	Scroll down select  Free Space  - Delete


10 in the list select the 16Mb flash drive ( usually Sda1 ) and make a 10 Gig partition of the type Ext4 
     Set the source as " / "

11  in the list select the 16Mb flash drive ( usually Sda1 ) Select free space and make a 1Gig partition of the type Swap

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Be sure and set the Device for boot loader install to the Flash Drive

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Press install.

As we do not know who will get this drive next class please,
Set the user to:             user1
Set the Password to :  Electronics
Open Fire Fox and bookmark a web site.


When the install is completed 

Reboot the computer into Linux Mint and open Firefox.
Check to see if it saved your bookmarked site.
This verifies that Linux is in persistant mode and saving your changes.
Next Reboot.

Check the bios boot order and select windows manager.
Reboot the computer and verify that it boots to windows 10