From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HqaNN-0005YA-QH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 19:50:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4MJnIKe013271; Tue, 22 May 2007 19:49:18 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4MJixFX008543 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 19:44:59 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so320883ugc for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 12:44:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=kNtmX1q5dcf1AG7nI9IzWumB2I8f3U1wzx1LbHjqQxK46YMC3iUMHDgNJA/khkYSiJ12GnD7hgbDXt2Qem239KInQE1WDQqi1awKLjRKx9dnQCPOaI5SfR4oYVma+yxM/U/lMQXl9etJOHLzWlGuTgiDLzMQVsLii/5jE53pkoQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=LbPDZRX3FKtSsWt4kfk6NJd7NMb/+sSFXfrIzX6WZPO1eS6WZ59CieqK/bEHhCApunx9l1PzbYCAKzKay2997XsrRj4ErrA9O/gUMzrDURrHx1V1tTpXatGvbK4DK4/WWXaJSwUF5ZcOneJxdCJFiRY1ookVrbWtP/79GxIdM8U= Received: by 10.67.31.17 with SMTP id i17mr776064ugj.1179863095822; Tue, 22 May 2007 12:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id q1sm2220707uge.2007.05.22.12.44.54; Tue, 22 May 2007 12:44:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linux (Ubuntu) on a USB drive doesn't save Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 19:43:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <021f01c79c3c$9bff9e60$450a0a0a@locutus> <1179818026.22419.24.camel@orpheus> In-Reply-To: <1179818026.22419.24.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart21856017.miEYYXI1zJ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705221943.13183.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2ae979a0-37a7-40eb-ad67-1c664b1b2adc X-Archives-Hash: 9fa2ea4fa92dc95d4b5cd9cac861ac52 --nextPart21856017.miEYYXI1zJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 22 May 2007 08:13, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 23:44 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > [snip] > > > I followed this guide: > > http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/02/12/usb-ubuntu-tutorial-for-linux-us > > ers/#more-117 > > > > And used Ubuntu 7.04. It worked great. I can boot and get online and all > > sorts of things. > > > > However, nothing "saves" !!!? > > I'm not qualified to answer this question because I've never used > Ubuntu; I've never booted from a usb key; and I'm on the gentoo-user > ml ;) buuut maybe the usb key boot idea works like a live-cd and loads > your filesystem into a RAM disk? In which case, changed you made > wouldn't actually be saved... you could add another partition to the > key for "persistent" storage perhaps? Most of Iain's caveats apply here too, but judging from Knoppix you need to= =20 pass some boot options to the kernel to let it know where your config files= =20 are saved . . . assuming of course that Ubuntu on a LiveCD/USB has this lev= el=20 of sophistication. Hope this helps. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart21856017.miEYYXI1zJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGUzm35Fp0QerLYPcRArvQAJ49Ea1AQmkDd9cQi1bt+FSQxGb1oQCgp9Mp 5y+bzMOQ9cf9AvISthz/5VI= =BKmM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart21856017.miEYYXI1zJ-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list