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On Tuesday 22 May 2007 08:13, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 23:44 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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> > I followed this guide: |
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> > http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/02/12/usb-ubuntu-tutorial-for-linux-us |
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> > ers/#more-117 |
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> > And used Ubuntu 7.04. It worked great. I can boot and get online and all |
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> > sorts of things. |
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> > However, nothing "saves" !!!? |
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> I'm not qualified to answer this question because I've never used |
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> Ubuntu; I've never booted from a usb key; and I'm on the gentoo-user |
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> ml ;) buuut maybe the usb key boot idea works like a live-cd and loads |
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> your filesystem into a RAM disk? In which case, changed you made |
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> wouldn't actually be saved... you could add another partition to the |
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> key for "persistent" storage perhaps? |
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Most of Iain's caveats apply here too, but judging from Knoppix you need to |
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pass some boot options to the kernel to let it know where your config files |
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are saved . . . assuming of course that Ubuntu on a LiveCD/USB has this level |
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of sophistication. |
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Hope this helps. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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