USB Linux Mint 7 persistent flash drive creation. In the following tutorial, we show you how to use Windows to create a Portable Linux Mint 7 USB flash drive. Linux Mint 7 Gloria is based on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and is compatible with it's current repositories. Originally launched as a variant of Ubuntu with integrated media codecs, Linux Mint has developed into an elegant Linux distribution. Currently maintained by Clement Lefebvre, more information about Linux Mint can be found at the Official Linux Mint site.
Note: The persistent feature works just as it does in Ubuntu 9.04, allowing you to save and restore most of your changes.
Linux Mint 7 Gloria Screenshot:
USB Linux Mint 7 Flash Drive creation essentials:
- 2GB or Larger USB Flash Drive (Fat32 formatted)
- Linux Mint 7 Gloria ISO
- fixmint7.exe
Linux Mint Flash Drive creation process:
- Download and run USBMint7.exe extracting the contents to your desktop, a USBMint folder is created
- Download the LinuxMint-7.iso and copy it to the USBMint folder on your desktop
- From the USBMint folder on your desktop, run fixmint.bat (not working for me, so I deleted the paragraph for inputing drive letter and replaced %drive% with the drive letter of my flash drive F) and follow the onscreen instructions
- Reboot your PC and set your system BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device, save your changes and reboot booting from the USB memory stick
Upon reboot, you should have a successful launch of USB Linux Mint (Portable Linux Mint 7) from your flash memory stick.
Persistence size: The default casper-rw loop file that becomes the partition for saving changes is only 1GB. If you have room and would prefer to use more space for saving changes you can download one of the following zip files and extract the new casper-rw file to your USB device, replacing the old one.
You will lose any saved changes by replacing your casper-rw file with one listed above!
