WIDEshell - Create penguins-eggs writable usb drive

 

See: Installing penguins-eggs for creating a eggs custom Live thumb drive

 

Create penguins-eggs writable usb drive:

  • Thumb Drive: Need 16GB (or larger) in this example build 16GB
  • sudo fdisk -l : Identify thumb drive device id: example, /dev/sdb
  • Gparted: create 2 partitoins: 13GB ext4 | 2GB (remaining) Linux swap-file
  • Boot your  eggs custom Live thumb drive. (Installing penguins-eggs)
  • Start Calamares: Manual Partition | /dev/sdb1 | Mount Point: / | grub install:/dev/sdb

 

sudo fdisk -l # to id your usb drive

sudo fdisk -l 

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdb1 * 2048 26339327 26337280 12.6G 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 26339328 30627839 4288512 2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

 

  • Gparted: to partiton your usb thumb drive:
    • part1 - ext4
    • part2 - Linux swap-file
sudo gaprted /dev/sdb

 gparted parted sdb1 2

 

Video - how to create partitions using gparted on youtube

 

Boot your custom Live eggs thumb drive:

  • insert new dual partition usb in to computer
  • launch penguins-eggs Calamares Installer 
    • Open Terminal - run bash script: /usr/sbin/install-system.sh  # Leave terminal open - minimize Terminal
    • Manual Partition | /dev/sdb1 | Mount Point: /  | grub Install: /dev/sdb

DONE !