Hello, I’m planning a new laptop and want to give a try to MANJARO-KDE. A dealer allows me some tests with different machines, so I’d like to use an USB-Stick with VENTOY (no URL allowed), which allows for persistence. Is there any downloadable image allowing this? Thank you, Michael

There is no Manjaro ISO supporting persistence. When you have prepared your usb using ventoy - simply resize the resulting partition - create a new partition and format to the new partition to ext4. Ventoy don’t care as long as your ISO is on the first partition - ventoy uses exfat - but you can r…

Thank you, actually I used VENTOY and have an USB-Stick with MANJARO (non persitent), KDE-NEON (persistent) . From your message I understood, that there is no chance to get MANJARO persistent with VENTOY? On the other hand, your option [image] linux-aarhus: project …mbusb.aguslr.com/ to creat…

I have been playing with the possibility of changing the size of the partition ventoy creates - no success so far. EDIT: Use gparted and remove the one big partition - then create two partitions in the released space - save and format to ext4 or exfat. Copy the ISO(s) to the first partition and bo…

[image] linux-aarhus: There is no Manjaro ISO supporting persistence. Actually there is (now): [image] Manjaro XFCE 20.0.3 - Persistent USB - released Releases [image] There was always the demand of persistent USB-images. Since our manjaro-tools are not…

@freggel.doe @linux-aarhus Thank you for your proposals. Both seem to exceed my experiences by far. If once an KDE .iso (like the XFCE 20.0.3) should be available, I’d appreciate …

If the XFCE persistent USB is not to your liking, you can always: “Burn” the standard KDE ISO to an old slow USB stick. Switch the PC you want to test to BIOS / CSM / … mode Boot and install the standard ISO to another (fast) USB stick Run the second USB for testing purposes on any machine after …

[image] linux-aarhus: https://mbusb.aguslr.com/ Or easier yet…don’t make the ISO read only. Then we can use the program of our choice to make a persistent USB stick. Hm? Seems simple to me and seems simple to most every distro I try.

When the filesystem used is ISO9660 - the readonly is unavoidable. If the ISO was not read only then it would be very easy to make copies with malware which lures innocent users into making their system botnet ready. I very much prefer that you know what is inside - and besides that - it makes it …

That is a fine moral standing but then you must feel that the 95% of the linux distros are bad actors. They are not being safe from malware. Could a bad actor intent on spreading malware use something like Unetbootin, place malware in there and put it all back together as a Manjaro ISO? Thanks fo…

[image] urdrwho: Seems simple to me Well - if it is that simple why don’t you clone the tools on gitlab and present your turnkey solution in a merge request? You have been presented with the available options - if you don’t like it - that is okay.

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freggel.doe 16 September 2020 08:00 5

Actually there is (now):