Hi All, I finally got persistence to work and got lots of it too. Even got LibreOffice installed on it! This is what I did: 1) wiped the stick with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc I checked with Kanguru tech support and I indeed did flip off all my charges. 2) used gparted to create an msdos disk with a single bootable primary ext4 partition. 3) cut the flash drive with liveusb-creator-3.12.0-1.el6.noarch. Ran the slide bar over for maximum persistence (~12 GB on my 16 GB stick). As of 3.11, ext4 is now supported. Yipee! See https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/wiki/News Now if I can only get the stinker to work in every motherboard I stick it into. Made a separate post on that one. Appreciation to everyone that helped me on this! -T