USB booting :: Run from USB stick and save settings



Quote (damianiw @ Aug. 10 2005,05:27)
DSL Automatically backups up to the place it restored from or where you have specified if you backed up from the DSL Control Pannel, this is called in the /opt/powerdown.sh script which I have modified to look like below:

Wow, didn't even know that feature was there. Have been running backup each time before I shutdown. Thanks!
Is there a way I can set the restore point to SDA1 when I boot? I think there is a file I can edit, I just dont know where or what it is.
Quote (Borderpatrol @ Aug. 19 2005,13:05)
Is there a way I can set the restore point to SDA1 when I boot? I think there is a file I can edit, I just dont know where or what it is.

I think there is an option in the bootup menu you can use to specify what to restore from if that's what you're asking. I don't recall it exactly but hit the F1, F2 and F3 keys to find it when "boot:" appears.
I didn't bother to create new topic so might as well ask in this:

I made dsl boot from my pendrive by using winimage and dsl live-cd. boot files wrote with winimage and the the stuff from live-cd just copied to pendrive afterwards.

I'm trying also to get the dsl save the settings to sda1 after shutdown or boot but adding that to backup/restore doesn't work.
Any ideas? I'm a total noobzor in the linux enviroment  :)
Before shutdown dsl setup asks to remove cd from drive before powering down but I'm using pendrive?
Quote (EGoman @ Aug. 24 2005,19:09)
I didn't bother to create new topic so might as well ask in this:

I made dsl boot from my pendrive by using winimage and dsl live-cd. boot files wrote with winimage and the the stuff from live-cd just copied to pendrive afterwards.

I'm trying also to get the dsl save the settings to sda1 after shutdown or boot but adding that to backup/restore doesn't work.
Any ideas? I'm a total noobzor in the linux enviroment  :)
Before shutdown dsl setup asks to remove cd from drive before powering down but I'm using pendrive?

Not sure why it's not saving. In the backup did you say sda? Or did you use /dev/sda

I did /dev/sda the first time and it didn't work but there wasn't an error message so I didn't know until I rebooted. Also, what exactly are you hoping to save?

The backup doesn't save every change made to DSL, just those directories and files that are listed in .filelist in the /home/dsl directory and not in .xfilelist (exception list). So if what you're tying to save isn't listed in there, it won't be saved.

As far as the CD message goes, I think that's just because the developer is using the same program that is used for CDs. It's mainly to give you a chance to remove the CD before booting so you don't "accidentally" go back into DSL when you intended to reboot and start something else. Think of it in this case as suggestion to remove the pen drive instead.
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