Make Bootable BT3 USB Drive With Changes and Storage Folder

Ok, so lately I have really been wanting to keep my portable drive that I take from computer to computer and also have a bootable BT3 drive with changes. Here are the steps I took to make it happen.

You are going to need:
1. A USB drive of at least 2Gb
2. A copy of the USB BT3 iso, found here.
3. A machine (virtual or real) running Windows.
4. A BT Live CD or BT VM.

Ok here we go...
1. Boot into windows and have your flash drive recognized.
2. I used Acronis Disk Director to partition the drive and made a minimum of 1.5Gb FAT32 partition labeled "BT3", however you can label it whatever you want. If you do not have Acronis Disk Director, then see the steps below...if you do, then move to step 3.
**EDIT** If you do not have a copy of Acronis Disk Director...then boot from the Live CD and use fdisk to partition. Use the following commands:

fdisk -l (find your USB drive)
fdisk /dev/sda
d (delete the partitions until the drive is blank)
1
n (create a new paritition)
p
1
(enter)
+1.3G (the size you want for your install)
n
p
2
(enter)
(enter) (the size you want for your changes...this assumes the rest of the drive)
w
mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda1
mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda2
umount /dev/sda1
umount /dev/sda2

Now move to step 4

3. Then I partitioned the rest of the drive in ext2 format and labeled it changes.
4. Restart the computer for the changes to be applied (you may not have to do this depending on your partitioner) and boot back into Windows.
5. Extract all files found in the bt3final_usb.iso with WinRAR.
6. Take the extracted files and copy them to your USB drive (the only partition recognized in Windows)
7. Open up a command prompt and enter the following commands:

e: (or the drive letter of your USB drive)
cd boot
bootinst.bat

8. Once it completes, hit enter and restart into your BT Live CD or simply switch to your BT vm.
9. Navigate to your flash drive: cd /mnt/sda1 (replacing sda1 with your flash drive).
10. Enter the following commands:

mkdir X (you can name this what you want, this is for your personal data)
cd /boot/syslinux
chmod +Xx lilo
chmod +Xx syslinux
nano syslinux.cfg

And find the label pchanges and by APPEND, change the changes=/changes/changes.dat to changes=/dev/sda2

mkdir /mnt/sdb2/changes

11. Now restart and boot to your flash drive and select the Persistent Changes option.

Let me know if you found a different way or if this doesn't work for you. I'm hoping to get a video up of this soon.

Eee Tutorials coming soon!