Live USB Creator Persistence

[jnwright]

I must be doing something wrong. I'm using Sparky 7.6 (Orion-Belt),
Debian stable based, with the xfce desktop. I flashed the Sparky .iso to a USB using
the Live USB Creator Persistence app.

Then I booted up to the live USB and made some configuration changes
and install a couple of apps. Then I shutdown and booted back up
to the live USB, expecting my changes to be saved, but they weren't.

I thought that when you flashed a .iso file to a USB using
the Live USB Creator Persistence app, that changes would be retained
on the USB. What am I missing here ?

(My goal is to make a live USB with all my configurations already done,
 ready to install to a hard drive.)

[jymm]

I had the same problem. If you just flash Sparky to a USB drive it just makes a Persistence folder where you can store things like documents, pictures and stand alone software like TOR browser or app images.

Then I used gparted to wipe out  (delete) the partition on the USB drive,(do not format the partition) and then flashed Sparky with Live USB Creator Persistence and the whole USB had Persistence.I have done it twice now and it worked both times.
Good luck.