HD Install :: HDinstall (not frugal) persistence problems



Hi, an extreme noob here who's having mucho difficulties getting persistence to work on an HDinstall.  I've tried all the Aterminal commands shown in the wiki (and other related forum discussions) to no avail.  I also tried reinstalling using frugal but then I couldn't get my wifi card to install (using the same windows driver that works under the HD install), so I'm back to the hdinstall trying to figure out where I'm going wrong. If anyone could point me in the right direction would be much appreciated.

My system is an eMachine Eone, celeron 433, 64mb ram, 5GB HD, Netgear MA521 pcmcia wifi, partitions are hda1/boot/1GB,   hda2/1GB, hda3/swap/500mb.
what is not being persistent?
hardware is auto-detected no matter what your install type, which includes fstab.  All software should persist, however.
I can't get any of the wifi settings, mydsl uci adds, or desktop icons to stick around after a reboot.  I suspect I haven't got the persistent home and opt configured properly, however I've tried to follow the wiki instructions with no success, such as:

added /opt and /etc to .filetool.lst
added home=hda1 opt=hda1 to append line in lilo.conf (and when this didn't work added to bootlocal.sh just hoping something would work)

Any advise / help would be appreciated.
I'm guessing you don't have backup/restore activated. This is necessary in a frugal harddrive install (do you have a frugal install?).  If you are using a debian-style install, I don't know...I've never used wireless.

uci packages do not remain installed no matter what type of installation you have, since they are not actually installed. Uci and unc packages are both mounted, so you will need to mount them each time you boot. This can be done with the "mydsl=something" boot option, or by adding mydsl-load commands to a startup script.
On HD install everything is persistent, no need for any home= mydsl= boot lines..
Well except for .uci's. See the config files in /home/dsl, one of them has a line ICONS=0,
change that into ICONS=1 and icons should stay (sorry, I don't remeber it's name)

Um Mik, am I right that unc extensions don't work on HD installs? Unionfs is not enabled on them...
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