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electricroo

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Re: S4 Snapshot - create live media and the full image of your system

This old PC uses Legacy Bios!

q4osteam

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Re: S4 Snapshot - create live media and the full image of your system

@electricroo
We can confirm issue when creating a snapshot from within Q4OS for Windows setup. We are adding this one to our bug list. Thanks for the report.

q4osteam

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Re: S4 Snapshot - create live media and the full image of your system

@electricroo
The issue you reported https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.ph … 484#p34484 should be fixed withing the new Q4OS winsetup 6.8 release. Could you please confirm ? You need to download new q4os-winsetup-6.8-r1.zip from https://www.q4os.org/downloads1.html

jozeywhales

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Registered: 2026-07-24

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Re: S4 Snapshot - create live media and the full image of your system

Hello,
I installed Q4OS Plasma a couple days ago to try it out and pleased with it so far!
I've been mostly using Arch flavored OS's the last 2-3 years.
I found MX Arch last week and installed it then and it is working very nicely also. I tried the Snapshot feature on it and really like it!.
I stumbled onto this thread after doing a search to see if MX Snapshot would work on Q4OS.

After getting just about all the software/programs I use installed on Q4OS I installed S4 Snapshot today and ran it. Took 23 minutes to produce my ISO which was 49GB in size.
My intention in doing so is I'm looking for a stable Plasma to put on my laptop that doesn't have to be updated as often as Arch OS's.
I copied the ISO to my Ventoy thumb drive and rebooted and selected the S4 Snapshot ISO.
It booted within a minute or so and there was my whole system, all my programs, all my customization's, etc., etc. Very cool!!
I started the installer with no issue and it was ready to install my system to wherever I wanted it.

I booted back into Q4OS on my desktop drive and used the S4 Live USB Maker to install the ISO on a 64GB thumb drive. This took about 90 minutes to complete but probably was a combination of the large size of the ISO and the thumb drive speed?
It completed successfully so I rebooted into the that thumb drive and only after about a minute or so I was back in my original installation again, working perfectly! Tried the installer again and it fired up no issues.

I believe I found my new OS for my laptop and I'm going to continue running Q4OS on my main machine and see how it goes.
I really liked the choice of being able to install a minimum system (MX Linux has a lot of extra stuff I don't really need).

A very enjoyable journey so far into the Q4OS world!

q4osteam

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Re: S4 Snapshot - create live media and the full image of your system

@electricroo
It would be helpful, if you could confirm S4-snapshot issue https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.ph … 484#p34484 is now resolved on your side.