How long is it supposed to take “creating a persistant file” with Universal USB Installer?
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Creating a persistent file. Progress will not move until finished...
It's been at it for 3-4 hours. I selected to install Ubuntu on a near empty drive (With just the image file of the OS installer in it.
I'm not sure if I did something wrong, or if something went wrong on the other end, or both (or is this supposed to be normal?)
I'm a Windows refugee. System specs are 16GB RAM, i7-7700K (2.80GHz), GTX 1050 Ti.
system-installation usb files persistence
edited Mar 8 '18 at 21:20
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Creating a persistent file. Progress will not move until finished...
It's been at it for 3-4 hours. I selected to install Ubuntu on a near empty drive (With just the image file of the OS installer in it.
I'm not sure if I did something wrong, or if something went wrong on the other end, or both (or is this supposed to be normal?)
I'm a Windows refugee. System specs are 16GB RAM, i7-7700K (2.80GHz), GTX 1050 Ti.
system-installation usb files persistence
edited Mar 8 '18 at 21:20
Zanna
51.4k13140243
asked Feb 28 '18 at 9:52
BonitaBonita
163
1
3-4 hours is way too much even in a slow computer. Please specify your computer's brand name and model. -- You could also trymkusb, which creates acasper-rwpartition instead of such a file for persistence. See help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb and help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/persistent
– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 9:57
Just updated with specs. 16GB RAM/i7-7700K/GTX 1050 Ti. Model is Dell 15 7567
– Bonita
Feb 28 '18 at 9:58
My experience (with a Dell Latitude E7240) is that it works well with Ubuntu. Something else is the problem, maybe the iso file (did you check it with md5sum?, help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes), maybe the tool (Universal USB Installer). -- You will probably need the boot optionnomodesetto get the nvidia graphics work in a [persistent] live drive. If you create an installed system in your USB drive, you can also install a proprietary nvidia driver (to improve the performance), but it will reduce the portability between computers.
– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 10:02
Or maybe you have an extremely slow USB pendrive. See this link, help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/…
– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 10:07
2
I think I know what went wrong. It was my fault. Universal USB asked me (optional) to define the persistent data size and I accidentally had the whole space drive (of the HDD) defined for it, rather than a small number like 2GB. Maybe that's why it was taking forever? edit: I retried the install. This time it wrapped up under 10 seconds! That must have been it.
– Bonita
Feb 28 '18 at 10:58
|
show 6 more comments
Creating a persistent file. Progress will not move until finished...
It's been at it for 3-4 hours. I selected to install Ubuntu on a near empty drive (With just the image file of the OS installer in it.
I'm not sure if I did something wrong, or if something went wrong on the other end, or both (or is this supposed to be normal?)
I'm a Windows refugee. System specs are 16GB RAM, i7-7700K (2.80GHz), GTX 1050 Ti.
system-installation usb files persistence
edited Mar 8 '18 at 21:20
Zanna
51.4k13140243
asked Feb 28 '18 at 9:52
BonitaBonita
163
Creating a persistent file. Progress will not move until finished...
It's been at it for 3-4 hours. I selected to install Ubuntu on a near empty drive (With just the image file of the OS installer in it.
I'm not sure if I did something wrong, or if something went wrong on the other end, or both (or is this supposed to be normal?)
I'm a Windows refugee. System specs are 16GB RAM, i7-7700K (2.80GHz), GTX 1050 Ti.
system-installation usb files persistence
system-installation usb files persistence
edited Mar 8 '18 at 21:20
Zanna
51.4k13140243
asked Feb 28 '18 at 9:52
BonitaBonita
163
edited Mar 8 '18 at 21:20
Zanna
51.4k13140243
asked Feb 28 '18 at 9:52
BonitaBonita
163
edited Mar 8 '18 at 21:20
Zanna
51.4k13140243
edited Mar 8 '18 at 21:20
Zanna
51.4k13140243
edited Mar 8 '18 at 21:20
Zanna
51.4k13140243
51.4k13140243
asked Feb 28 '18 at 9:52
BonitaBonita
163
asked Feb 28 '18 at 9:52
BonitaBonita
163
asked Feb 28 '18 at 9:52
BonitaBonita
163
163
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3-4 hours is way too much even in a slow computer. Please specify your computer's brand name and model. -- You could also trymkusb, which creates acasper-rwpartition instead of such a file for persistence. See help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb and help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/persistent
– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 9:57
Just updated with specs. 16GB RAM/i7-7700K/GTX 1050 Ti. Model is Dell 15 7567
– Bonita
Feb 28 '18 at 9:58
My experience (with a Dell Latitude E7240) is that it works well with Ubuntu. Something else is the problem, maybe the iso file (did you check it with md5sum?, help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes), maybe the tool (Universal USB Installer). -- You will probably need the boot optionnomodesetto get the nvidia graphics work in a [persistent] live drive. If you create an installed system in your USB drive, you can also install a proprietary nvidia driver (to improve the performance), but it will reduce the portability between computers.
– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 10:02
Or maybe you have an extremely slow USB pendrive. See this link, help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/…
– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 10:07
2
I think I know what went wrong. It was my fault. Universal USB asked me (optional) to define the persistent data size and I accidentally had the whole space drive (of the HDD) defined for it, rather than a small number like 2GB. Maybe that's why it was taking forever? edit: I retried the install. This time it wrapped up under 10 seconds! That must have been it.
– Bonita
Feb 28 '18 at 10:58
|
show 6 more comments
1
3-4 hours is way too much even in a slow computer. Please specify your computer's brand name and model. -- You could also trymkusb, which creates acasper-rwpartition instead of such a file for persistence. See help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb and help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/persistent
– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 9:57
Just updated with specs. 16GB RAM/i7-7700K/GTX 1050 Ti. Model is Dell 15 7567
– Bonita
Feb 28 '18 at 9:58
My experience (with a Dell Latitude E7240) is that it works well with Ubuntu. Something else is the problem, maybe the iso file (did you check it with md5sum?, help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes), maybe the tool (Universal USB Installer). -- You will probably need the boot optionnomodesetto get the nvidia graphics work in a [persistent] live drive. If you create an installed system in your USB drive, you can also install a proprietary nvidia driver (to improve the performance), but it will reduce the portability between computers.
– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 10:02
Or maybe you have an extremely slow USB pendrive. See this link, help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/…
– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 10:07
2
I think I know what went wrong. It was my fault. Universal USB asked me (optional) to define the persistent data size and I accidentally had the whole space drive (of the HDD) defined for it, rather than a small number like 2GB. Maybe that's why it was taking forever? edit: I retried the install. This time it wrapped up under 10 seconds! That must have been it.
– Bonita
Feb 28 '18 at 10:58
1
1
3-4 hours is way too much even in a slow computer. Please specify your computer's brand name and model. -- You could also try
mkusb, which creates a casper-rw partition instead of such a file for persistence. See help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb and help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/persistent– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 9:57
3-4 hours is way too much even in a slow computer. Please specify your computer's brand name and model. -- You could also try
mkusb, which creates a casper-rw partition instead of such a file for persistence. See help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb and help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/persistent– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 9:57
Just updated with specs. 16GB RAM/i7-7700K/GTX 1050 Ti. Model is Dell 15 7567
– Bonita
Feb 28 '18 at 9:58
Just updated with specs. 16GB RAM/i7-7700K/GTX 1050 Ti. Model is Dell 15 7567
– Bonita
Feb 28 '18 at 9:58
My experience (with a Dell Latitude E7240) is that it works well with Ubuntu. Something else is the problem, maybe the iso file (did you check it with md5sum?, help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes), maybe the tool (Universal USB Installer). -- You will probably need the boot option
nomodeset to get the nvidia graphics work in a [persistent] live drive. If you create an installed system in your USB drive, you can also install a proprietary nvidia driver (to improve the performance), but it will reduce the portability between computers.– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 10:02
My experience (with a Dell Latitude E7240) is that it works well with Ubuntu. Something else is the problem, maybe the iso file (did you check it with md5sum?, help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes), maybe the tool (Universal USB Installer). -- You will probably need the boot option
nomodeset to get the nvidia graphics work in a [persistent] live drive. If you create an installed system in your USB drive, you can also install a proprietary nvidia driver (to improve the performance), but it will reduce the portability between computers.– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 10:02
Or maybe you have an extremely slow USB pendrive. See this link, help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/…
– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 10:07
Or maybe you have an extremely slow USB pendrive. See this link, help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/…
– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 10:07
2
2
I think I know what went wrong. It was my fault. Universal USB asked me (optional) to define the persistent data size and I accidentally had the whole space drive (of the HDD) defined for it, rather than a small number like 2GB. Maybe that's why it was taking forever? edit: I retried the install. This time it wrapped up under 10 seconds! That must have been it.
– Bonita
Feb 28 '18 at 10:58
I think I know what went wrong. It was my fault. Universal USB asked me (optional) to define the persistent data size and I accidentally had the whole space drive (of the HDD) defined for it, rather than a small number like 2GB. Maybe that's why it was taking forever? edit: I retried the install. This time it wrapped up under 10 seconds! That must have been it.
– Bonita
Feb 28 '18 at 10:58
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Universal USB Installer and a casper-rw file
The OP, @Bonita, was able to solve the problem after we had exchanged ideas via comments. I write this answer to explain the solution.
The Universal USB Installer creates a casper-rw file for persistence, and she had selected all remaining space for it, which made it huge, because it was in a hard disk drive. The method to create the casper-rw file is intended for rather small USB pendrives, and it will take a very long time for a huge file.
She solved the problem by creating a smaller casper-rw file, only a few Gigabyte.
Universal USB asked me (optional) to define the persistent data size
and I accidentally had the whole space drive (of the HDD) defined for
it, rather than a small number like 2GB. Maybe that's why it was
taking forever? edit: I retried the install. This time it wrapped up
under 10 seconds! That must have been it.
mkusb and a casper-rw partition
If you have a big USB drive, like in this case a hard disk drive, or an SSD, and you want to use all the remaining drive space for persistence, you can use a persistent live system with a casper-rw partition.
mkusb can create such a persistent live system, and setting up a big or huge partition is much faster than doing it for a file of the same size.
General discussion
See also this link, and the discussion in the whole thread (the question and also the other answers),
... try out new OS releases without committing to it? - USB alternatives
answered Mar 9 '18 at 7:11
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Where are the temp persistent files located on the Windows machine? I need to locate them and delete them!
I terminated installations cause they stopped when I ran out of hard drive space, now I have no hard drive space. I had 14 gig's free. Need to free that up to try again.
Thanks!
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Universal USB Installer and a casper-rw file
The OP, @Bonita, was able to solve the problem after we had exchanged ideas via comments. I write this answer to explain the solution.
The Universal USB Installer creates a casper-rw file for persistence, and she had selected all remaining space for it, which made it huge, because it was in a hard disk drive. The method to create the casper-rw file is intended for rather small USB pendrives, and it will take a very long time for a huge file.
She solved the problem by creating a smaller casper-rw file, only a few Gigabyte.
Universal USB asked me (optional) to define the persistent data size
and I accidentally had the whole space drive (of the HDD) defined for
it, rather than a small number like 2GB. Maybe that's why it was
taking forever? edit: I retried the install. This time it wrapped up
under 10 seconds! That must have been it.
mkusb and a casper-rw partition
If you have a big USB drive, like in this case a hard disk drive, or an SSD, and you want to use all the remaining drive space for persistence, you can use a persistent live system with a casper-rw partition.
mkusb can create such a persistent live system, and setting up a big or huge partition is much faster than doing it for a file of the same size.
General discussion
See also this link, and the discussion in the whole thread (the question and also the other answers),
... try out new OS releases without committing to it? - USB alternatives
answered Mar 9 '18 at 7:11
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Universal USB Installer and a casper-rw file
The OP, @Bonita, was able to solve the problem after we had exchanged ideas via comments. I write this answer to explain the solution.
The Universal USB Installer creates a casper-rw file for persistence, and she had selected all remaining space for it, which made it huge, because it was in a hard disk drive. The method to create the casper-rw file is intended for rather small USB pendrives, and it will take a very long time for a huge file.
She solved the problem by creating a smaller casper-rw file, only a few Gigabyte.
Universal USB asked me (optional) to define the persistent data size
and I accidentally had the whole space drive (of the HDD) defined for
it, rather than a small number like 2GB. Maybe that's why it was
taking forever? edit: I retried the install. This time it wrapped up
under 10 seconds! That must have been it.
mkusb and a casper-rw partition
If you have a big USB drive, like in this case a hard disk drive, or an SSD, and you want to use all the remaining drive space for persistence, you can use a persistent live system with a casper-rw partition.
mkusb can create such a persistent live system, and setting up a big or huge partition is much faster than doing it for a file of the same size.
General discussion
See also this link, and the discussion in the whole thread (the question and also the other answers),
... try out new OS releases without committing to it? - USB alternatives
answered Mar 9 '18 at 7:11
sudodussudodus
25.8k33078
add a comment |
Universal USB Installer and a casper-rw file
The OP, @Bonita, was able to solve the problem after we had exchanged ideas via comments. I write this answer to explain the solution.
The Universal USB Installer creates a casper-rw file for persistence, and she had selected all remaining space for it, which made it huge, because it was in a hard disk drive. The method to create the casper-rw file is intended for rather small USB pendrives, and it will take a very long time for a huge file.
She solved the problem by creating a smaller casper-rw file, only a few Gigabyte.
Universal USB asked me (optional) to define the persistent data size
and I accidentally had the whole space drive (of the HDD) defined for
it, rather than a small number like 2GB. Maybe that's why it was
taking forever? edit: I retried the install. This time it wrapped up
under 10 seconds! That must have been it.
mkusb and a casper-rw partition
If you have a big USB drive, like in this case a hard disk drive, or an SSD, and you want to use all the remaining drive space for persistence, you can use a persistent live system with a casper-rw partition.
mkusb can create such a persistent live system, and setting up a big or huge partition is much faster than doing it for a file of the same size.
General discussion
See also this link, and the discussion in the whole thread (the question and also the other answers),
... try out new OS releases without committing to it? - USB alternatives
answered Mar 9 '18 at 7:11
sudodussudodus
25.8k33078
Universal USB Installer and a casper-rw file
The OP, @Bonita, was able to solve the problem after we had exchanged ideas via comments. I write this answer to explain the solution.
The Universal USB Installer creates a casper-rw file for persistence, and she had selected all remaining space for it, which made it huge, because it was in a hard disk drive. The method to create the casper-rw file is intended for rather small USB pendrives, and it will take a very long time for a huge file.
She solved the problem by creating a smaller casper-rw file, only a few Gigabyte.
Universal USB asked me (optional) to define the persistent data size
and I accidentally had the whole space drive (of the HDD) defined for
it, rather than a small number like 2GB. Maybe that's why it was
taking forever? edit: I retried the install. This time it wrapped up
under 10 seconds! That must have been it.
mkusb and a casper-rw partition
If you have a big USB drive, like in this case a hard disk drive, or an SSD, and you want to use all the remaining drive space for persistence, you can use a persistent live system with a casper-rw partition.
mkusb can create such a persistent live system, and setting up a big or huge partition is much faster than doing it for a file of the same size.
General discussion
See also this link, and the discussion in the whole thread (the question and also the other answers),
... try out new OS releases without committing to it? - USB alternatives
answered Mar 9 '18 at 7:11
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answered Mar 9 '18 at 7:11
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Where are the temp persistent files located on the Windows machine? I need to locate them and delete them!
I terminated installations cause they stopped when I ran out of hard drive space, now I have no hard drive space. I had 14 gig's free. Need to free that up to try again.
Thanks!
answered 8 mins ago
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Where are the temp persistent files located on the Windows machine? I need to locate them and delete them!
I terminated installations cause they stopped when I ran out of hard drive space, now I have no hard drive space. I had 14 gig's free. Need to free that up to try again.
Thanks!
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Where are the temp persistent files located on the Windows machine? I need to locate them and delete them!
I terminated installations cause they stopped when I ran out of hard drive space, now I have no hard drive space. I had 14 gig's free. Need to free that up to try again.
Thanks!
answered 8 mins ago
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Where are the temp persistent files located on the Windows machine? I need to locate them and delete them!
I terminated installations cause they stopped when I ran out of hard drive space, now I have no hard drive space. I had 14 gig's free. Need to free that up to try again.
Thanks!
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3-4 hours is way too much even in a slow computer. Please specify your computer's brand name and model. -- You could also try
mkusb, which creates acasper-rwpartition instead of such a file for persistence. See help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb and help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/persistent– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 9:57
Just updated with specs. 16GB RAM/i7-7700K/GTX 1050 Ti. Model is Dell 15 7567
– Bonita
Feb 28 '18 at 9:58
My experience (with a Dell Latitude E7240) is that it works well with Ubuntu. Something else is the problem, maybe the iso file (did you check it with md5sum?, help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes), maybe the tool (Universal USB Installer). -- You will probably need the boot option
nomodesetto get the nvidia graphics work in a [persistent] live drive. If you create an installed system in your USB drive, you can also install a proprietary nvidia driver (to improve the performance), but it will reduce the portability between computers.– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 10:02
Or maybe you have an extremely slow USB pendrive. See this link, help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/…
– sudodus
Feb 28 '18 at 10:07
2
I think I know what went wrong. It was my fault. Universal USB asked me (optional) to define the persistent data size and I accidentally had the whole space drive (of the HDD) defined for it, rather than a small number like 2GB. Maybe that's why it was taking forever? edit: I retried the install. This time it wrapped up under 10 seconds! That must have been it.
– Bonita
Feb 28 '18 at 10:58