USB booting :: usb boot without ramdisk

Is it possible to boot DSL from an usb stick, but without the usb stick is using a ramdisk?

The problem with the ramdisk is that you can't make everything as you want and save it and when you reboot restore it. There are somethings I want to change, but DSL doesn't remember after a reboot.

So is there an install method that can do this?

You should use Backup/Restore to your usb stick (sda1 or sda2). It will save /home/dsl and /opt for you, and restore it when reboot.

/home/dsl and /opt allready are being saved, but if it is possible I want to save more then only those two.

For example: when I install a program to use and I reboot the program is gone again. And I want that the program is still there. Isn't that possible?

If you want to use myDSL auto-loading, you can put .dsl that you want in /mydsl folder (this feature is for DSL-2.3 only), or / of DSL image partition (in case you are using Frugal Install).

And how do you do that with packages that are not a .dsl packages but a Debian package? (.deb)

Do they run automaticly on the same way? The package I can't find as an .dsl package is the crontab package to run cronjobs...

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