Have been trying to install an iso image onto my usb drive but i am told to mount the usb drive. Could someone tell me how i might do this please.

Spacefm will mount it. AntiX Control center has a mount drives button also.

in terminal will give you some relevant info on whether your drive is plugged in not.
In case the plug is broken and you need to try another usb slot.

Hi rokytnji i tried the Antix mount drives button but Unetbootin still says to mount drive? I did type: sudo fdisk -l and the drive is /dev/sdb. I had a look in MX Tools and saw"Create Live USB". But i didn't try to use the software because i didn't know under Persistance how much space to give Home and Root. My USB drive is a SanDisk Cruzer 16GB.

oldBoy wrote:I had a look in MX Tools and saw"Create Live USB". But i didn't try to use the software because i didn't know under Persistance how much space to give Home and Root. My USB drive is a SanDisk Cruzer 16GB.

Are you making an antiX-15 LiveUSB? If so, the first time you boot with persistence enabled then we will make the files for home and root persistence for you. We also give recommended sizes based on the size of your device. With 16GB, you could simply use 2GB for each.

A partition needs to have a file system before you can mount it. If your Cruzer is /dev/sdb then I suggest you run:MAKE SURE this is the Cruzer and not the internal hard drive.

You can then remove the existing partition (if any) and replace it with an ext4 partition. This should let the system mount the /dev/sdb1 partition and you should be able to continue from there. The LiveUSB works better if you use ext4 rather than a fat32 (Windows) partition. In particular, the creation of persistence files takes seconds instead of minutes.

Hi BitJam

Must be doing something wrong aaaaaagh lol

>The LiveUSB works better if you use ext4 rather than a fat32 (Windows) partition. In particular, the creation of persistence files takes seconds instead of minutes.
Yeah, unetbootin after some btrfs partitions, and it should be a good use of the USB media, right?
edit: It doesn't. For unetbootin's pleasure, you need to have (at least) the first partition on the drive be FAT32 (or FAT16) and then mount it someplace in mnt.
At that point unetbootin will relent to using that mountpoint you then select, accept the persistent filesystem using FAT32, and unpack the iso there.
This is not ther persistence macguffin I like best, so of course I can edit the grub files to point to the UUID and partition of the btrfs bit, I think...

Things are fast. I almost regret not having looked for bad blocks (on a spinny rust drive. Which, I'll admit, is taking the blank smartd.conf file and logging nothing to dmesg...because...I can do smartctl --all devicenamehere and get some joy I guess.)

See, that's good to know and drop script directory info around for help. Though, I somehow now have an installed system (having given up on the accomodating-sounding installer installing to btrfs and xfs...with an extra button later to choose xfs?!? It just wouldn't pass grub (...and I would provide helpful logs from?)) that does not put the btrfs and xfs USB filesystems the installer found in /mount. I go to mount them and dmesg is all like...nope, not reiserfs or jfs here! This would be the joy of not having systemd then. [Throws horns, searches for lighter.] I think I might need to see the correspondence from lwn.net about this...

On the other hand, there's no systemd and firefox is not visibly throwing soiled shorts all over. It's running Iceweasel and Aurora and barely mumbling about concurrency being a future possibility (oh, a checkbox. Okay.)
And it boots in speedy contrast to all experience of the BIOS on this thing, so I have no idea why El Reg didn't feature it over OpenBox/CrunchBang++ or Lubuntu with LXQt brought in on its recent feature.