USB booting :: Writeable custom user directory ?

I don't fully understand how DSL deals with pendrives. I've been using frugal DSL on a harddrive, and the frugal boot option allows me to write to /cdrom. I assume it should be the same for a pendrive.
When you boot with the frugal option, can you create a new directory in /cdrom, either as user dsl or root? You *should* be able to do this as far as i can tell.
Did you originally create the data directory while logged in to the same pendrive-installed DSL system? If so, there is something very wrong if you can create but not change.

The "frugal" option does work the same way for pendrives that it does for hard drives.

So it should be possible to type something like:

dsl frugal

or

dsl frugal fromhd=/dev/sda1

at the "Boot:" prompt.

Hmm I´ve tried booting with "dsl frugal",
"dsl frugal fromhd=/dev/sda1" and without any
option, in every case with the same effect.

As root I can create a directory, as user I get a
permission denied.
chown always say operation permitted, chmod does not bring
an errormessage but is not changeing any attribut. :/

That sounds really weird. The only thing I can think of is that you are not actually trying these commands as root. If root can create a directory in /cdrom, it is mounted writeable and root should also be able to chown, chmod, rm, slice, dice, and julienne this directory.

I don´t want to have the weired problems.

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