you' ll have to do the maths yourself depending on the size of your cloned project. A regular Salix Live system can be compressed down to the size of a CD-ROM which is about 700 MB, in that case you could theoretically have up to 15 GB persistent file & still have a bit of place.
In doubt, just ...

16 GB seems plenty, but you' ll have to do the maths yourself depending on the size of your cloned project. A regular Salix Live system can be compressed down to the size of a CD-ROM which is about 700 MB, in that case you could theoretically have up to 15 GB persistent file & still have a bit of ...

The specs of your laptop seem powerful enough. But yes, it can take as much as a couple hours depending on certain set-up or the size of your project.

If you want to see some progress, you could either:

1- If you create a USB key:
Go to /media/name_you_gave_the_your_live_USB_key & see if files ...

Hi, all!

Am I right in assuming that the Live CD takes a very long time indeed to make a Live Clone on a USB drive? I started the process (on my old laptop; a Toshiba A100 Satellite); the message said "please wait, this can take a long time". So, I watched telly, did a few odds and ends and after ...

Yes, you can. There is a persistence tool right there on the desktop.

Now, does that make a stand alone persistence installation? I didn't get a chance to give it a go, but it looked to me like it would make a USB installation that also required the live CD. I was wanting to try to make a stand ...

Hi, all!

I thought I'd check out Salix LXDE and Xfce. But what I want to to is make a live/persistent install one of them on a USB drive. Ideally, I would like to install it on a 320 GB portable USB-HDD I have. I have already partitioned it: 80 GB for an OS and the other 240 GB for data back up. So ...