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Just a bit of backstory, I am at a work-search office today on one of their computers and it has no permissions whatsoever, making their computers nigh impossible to use for me, particularly because I use a highly customed keyboard layout only available in Linux.

I have my thumb-drive today however, and thought I would make a bootable-usb that I can work from instead. The thing is, is that without any permissions, I can not run any of the USB thumb drive installers, and so I am trying to figure out how to do this manually. I already have the thumb drive formatted to Fat, so is it just a matter of copying the ISO contents to the drive? Thanks.

Anon
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To Confirm Ability to Create Live/Persistent USB in Windows 10 Without Administrator permissions

  • Format flash drive to as new state, (FAT32)

  • Open the 19.10 ISO in Windows 10 File Explorer and copy the contents to the flashdrive.

Persistence

There are several methods to make the flash drive persistent. Using a casper-rw partition is not limited to 4GB.

Alt 1

  • Boot the drive using UEFI

  • At the grub menu press "e" to edit the menu

  • Add a space and "toram" after ..quiet splash,,,

  • Open GParted, select the USB drive, unmount and Resize/Move to make room for a persistent partition

  • In the available space create an ext4 partition and label it casper-rw

  • Mount grub.cfg. In Terminal run

    sudo mkdir -p /mnt/sd1

    sudo mount /dev/sdx1 /mnt/sd1

Where x is the OS partition

  • As root edit boot/grub/grub.cfg by adding a space and the word persistent after the first ...quiet splash --- and save.

Alt 2

  • Open Boot/grub/grub.cfg in Windows 10 latest build

  • After quiet splash ---, type a space and "persistent"

  • Boot the drive using UEFI

  • At the grub menu press "e" to edit the menu

  • Change "persistent" to "toram"

  • Open GParted, select the USB drive, unmount and Resize/Move to make room for a persistent partition

  • In the available space create an ext4 partition and label it casper-rw

The drive should now be ready for work

  • You can create a new user and install programs as you wish.
C.S.Cameron
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