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Yes. I first tried these options on another computer in a virtual machine to see how they work. They work as advertised on a virtual hard drive. In contrast, on my target machine, with only an...

But I require persistence as well, have only an external USB hard drive to work with, and no USB boot.

If your BIOS can boot with the USB drive, why not use "Flash disk Install to HD" or "HD Install"?

That works fine when it works, but more often than not, I get messages saying that the boot...

Tried again. The USBHDD is installed as sda. There is nothing obvious to the untutored eye in the dmesg methods that describe detecting and installing sda. There seem to be no messaged from...

I've already checked this, but I'll try again after the machine finishes a 24-hour memory check. What log files should I look at then? The machine is old and may have intractable hardware...

knoppix tohd=/dev/sda1 boot option does not seem to work when /dev/sda1 is an external USB hard drive. It this the expected behavior?