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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:16:07
Message-Id: 2773751.EE327NhCSs@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux) by Neil Bothwick
1 On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 19:37:35 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:57:22 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a
4 > > method I found on the Web to include a persistent file-system with all
5 > > the extras I wanted in, e.g., /usr/local/bin.
6 > >
7 > > It works well, except that I haven't found yet where to put all my
8 > > aliases to have them sourced at (auto) log-in.
9 >
10 > There is a file that is executed by default at login, I think it
11 > is .autorun. I remember having to add an option to ignore it on the
12 > LXFDVDs because we use .autorun on those to launch a browser.
13
14 I had a poke around and didn't get anywhere with .autorun, but eventually I
15 found that SysRescCD uses zsh, not bash. It hadn't occurred to me until then
16 to consider the shell. So that's why the auto-login function wasn't behaving
17 the way I expected.
18
19 Thanks again Neil.
20
21 --
22 Regards
23 Peter

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux) Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux) Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>