USB booting :: Saving customization?

No worries :-)
BTW, once I boot up using the TORAM, my cd drive is then free anyway ;-)

Sure

kris *_^O^_*

I think this post by kris, shows how the help page in DSL needs to be changed. It should explicitly tell you that you need to go to the control panel first and then click backup/restore to save your settings the first time.

Or it should tell you that if you simply include the bootcode to restore settings, that it will create the files to save your settings if it does indeed work that way which would not make much sense.

I'm still having trouble saving my stuff. Here's what I've tried:

I start up DSL regularly from my thumbdrive. I mount hda2 (which is my linux partition on my laptop) and then transfer a few files. For example, I get a few songs and create a /home/dsl/music/ folder and put a few songs in there, I add a new image to use as my background to the /.fluxbox/Backgrounds/ folder, and I put a random test text file in the /home/dsl/ directory.

Then I go to backup/restore and type sda1, my thumbdrive.

Then next time I start up I type dsl restore={sda1}, though I've also tried just plane restore={sda1} without the dsl, and that didn't work either.

When I start up, it's just a like the first time. Nothing I've saved, not matter where it is is restored. If I'm understanding correctly, everything in the /home/dsl folder should've been saved.

tell us what msgs turn up during boot.
e.g restoring from /dev/sda1 .. \

also,
check backup.tar.gz exists in /mnt/sda1/
after you press 'backup'

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