[Inori]

Looks like you're right! I fried a 128gb flash drive trying to do it.

EDIT:
YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THIS. I JUST PLUGGED IT IN AFTER TWO YEARS AND IT GAVE ME THE OPTION TO FORMAT! IT LIVESSSSSSSSSSS

feelsgoodman

Nope still didnt work. Formatting failed :-(

RIP flash drive, that sucks.

I'm gonna poke around for some shitty USBs to test this on when I get off work, I'll keep you guys posted.

[Inori]

Update: I'm trying again after Windows fried one of my USBs. Turns out you need two: one for the install iso and one to install on. Oops.

[d0ntjump]

I've done this with Kali and other distros. Do yourself a favor and take your ssd/hardrive out of your machine to eliminate any confusion with partitioning. Run the installation like normal and then just choose the USB for the installation. It will work like any other mass storage device. I do this all the time with SD cards too. Hope this helped.

[Inori]

I've done this with Kali and other distros. Do yourself a favor and take your ssd/hardrive out of your machine to eliminate any confusion with partitioning. Run the installation like normal and then just choose the USB for the installation. It will work like any other mass storage device. I do this all the time with SD cards too. Hope this helped.

I just keep a rule of thumb to never fuck with /dev/sda unless I'm in a virtual machine, it hasn't failed me so far.

[d0ntjump]

I've done this with Kali and other distros. Do yourself a favor and take your ssd/hardrive out of your machine to eliminate any confusion with partitioning. Run the installation like normal and then just choose the USB for the installation. It will work like any other mass storage device. I do this all the time with SD cards too. Hope this helped.

I just keep a rule of thumb to never fuck with /dev/sda unless I'm in a virtual machine, it hasn't failed me so far.

I hear ya! I'm just one to play it safe.

[Byrdonawire]

Here is a tool that is super easy to use and fast and to the point i you can use it to install any linux distro to usb in seconds. The tool is self explanatory it is windows based. Run the tool you will have to download your arch distro and and add it to the que then let it do the work. The tool is the universal USB installer it has been around for a while and has never let me down https://mega.nz/#!H4QixYja!b4fW-C31NbDqL...EGWOL7JHqE Enjoy!!!!! [emoji12]

[Inori]

Here is a tool that is super easy to use and fast and to the point i you can use it to install any linux distro to usb in seconds. The tool is self explanatory it is windows based. Run the tool you will have to download your arch distro and and add it to the que then let it do the work. The tool is the universal USB installer it has been around for a while and has never let me down https://mega.nz/#!H4QixYja!b4fW-C31NbDqL...EGWOL7JHqE  Enjoy!!!!!  [emoji12]

USBInstaller creates an installation image on the target drive - it doesn't install a persistent instance of Linux, which is the purpose of this thread. Either way, this was resolved about a month ago.

[Byrdonawire]

Here is a tool that is super easy to use and fast and to the point i you can use it to install any linux distro to usb in seconds. The tool is self explanatory it is windows based. Run the tool you will have to download your arch distro and and add it to the que then let it do the work. The tool is the universal USB installer it has been around for a while and has never let me down https://mega.nz/#!H4QixYja!b4fW-C31NbDqL...EGWOL7JHqE  Enjoy!!!!!  [emoji12]

USBInstaller creates an installation image on the target drive - it doesn't install a persistent instance of Linux, which is the purpose of this thread. Either way, this was resolved about a month ago.

Sorry if that didn't help I'm glad you got your problem resolved. As far as the persistent image goes i always save my work and its there every time I boot the image up.