How can I install Manjaro inside a single ext4 image in NTFS partition?

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Hello,

@heroksiddiqi

I also found Manjaro live USB doen’t support persistent mode.

No Live System supports persistence by default, but there are ways to make it persistent.
Something to read:

[root tip] [How To] Manjaro-To-Go LXDE with persistance

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ Manjaro-To-Go LXDE with persistence Original guide at USB LXDE with persistence | root.nix.dk This guide is different than the usual guides I write - the purpose of this is to give any of you a serious tool in case of displacement due to war, evacuation due to natural disasters, riots, ban on religious practice etc. You can also use the stick at home for your occasional secure computing - you can have a normal computer in home - and when necessary you can boot the stick - d…

[root tip] [How To] Multi ISO USB with storage partition

ISO to USB no wasted space Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ Original topic on the archived forum. My notes on ISO to USB no wasted space Manjaro ISO From time to time the question is raised on how an ISO is written to a USB stick, especially large capacity USB sticks. Why can’t I use the remaining space on my 32GB USB? This is because Manjaro ISO is a ISO9660 CD-ROM file system and this filesystem is immutable: you cannot change it. As such a 2GB ISO makes it impossible to use the excess space for anyt…

Manjaro XFCE 20.0.3 - Persistent USB - released

[image] There was always the demand of persistent USB-images. Since our manjaro-tools are not able to produce them, we looked for a different way. We found ALMA, which we modified to our needs. With it it is easy to create your personal persistent USB-images. Simply install alma-git from our unstable branch and checkout our presets. pamac install alma-git You may also follow our video tutorials: [Manjaro | Create a persistent USB-Stick easily] [Manjaro | Add XFCE to y…

from archived forum:
https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/howto-run-manjaro-on-a-stick/109520
https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/howto-write-manjaro-iso-to-usb-bootable-usb-no-wasted-space/115111

Also

[HowTo] Boot Manjaro ISO directly with GRUB

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