[BozemanLUG] Live USB with persistence ?

[David Boreham]

Anyone have success with a live USB Flash install, with the filesystem 
persistence overlay ?

I spent the last 3h messing around with a Fedora 18 live USB image, with 
2G persistence overlay configured, only to discover that (for unknown 
reasons) the overlay is not in fact mounted. So any changes made to the 
filesystem are lost on reboot. Some Googling reveals that this was a 
known bug in Fedora 15, but the bug report claims it was fixed in 2010.

Before I burn more time on what is not a high priority project (I'm 
attempting to show my son how to sand-box his Minecraft mod downloads), 
has anyone had success with any recent live usb distribution, 
specifically with persistence working ? I don't need to use Fedora, just 
something that has a usable Java for Minecraft, and drives his graphics 
card (ATI-something-orother).

Thanks for any pointers.