CentOS - Nov 2008 - Running From Live DVD & Keeping Settings Between Boots

Someone posted how to use a memory card (USB or another kind) to save
settings between boots of a Live CD/DVD.  I believe it was posted not too long
ago and I thought I had kept the email, but now that I'm looking for the
information, I can not find it.  I've done some searching and I either get
way
too many hits or way too few, none of which are what I'm looking for.  Does
anyone remember that post and can forward that message to me?  Thanks.

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On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Brent L. Bates <blbates at vigyan.com>
wrote:
>     Someone posted how to use a memory card (USB or another kind) to save
> settings between boots of a Live CD/DVD.  I believe it was posted not too
long
> ago and I thought I had kept the email, but now that I'm looking for
the
> information, I can not find it.  I've done some searching and I either
get way
> too many hits or way too few, none of which are what I'm looking for. 
Does
> anyone remember that post and can forward that message to me?  Thanks.
I'm running on my CentOS 5.2 Live CD and I just looked at all the
GNOME menus. If that's something one can do from the menu, it's not
intuitively obvious. If you find out how to do this, please  post back
to the ML.

Brent L. Bates wrote:
>      Someone posted how to use a memory card (USB or another kind) to save
> settings between boots of a Live CD/DVD.  I believe it was posted not too
long
> ago and I thought I had kept the email, but now that I'm looking for
the
> information, I can not find it.  I've done some searching and I either
get way
> too many hits or way too few, none of which are what I'm looking for. 
Does
> anyone remember that post and can forward that message to me?  Thanks.
Unless I'm missing something, you must be remembering another distro. 
Had some discussions on this during 5.2 live CD testing with Patrice 
Guay who builds the CentOS live CDs.  Knoppix has a feature to save to 
USB, and Fedora 9 uses "persistence" to save changes from their live
CD,
but as of 5.2 CentOS livecd does not implement it.

Phil


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On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Phil Schaffner
<Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov> wrote:
> Brent L. Bates wrote:
>>
>>     Someone posted how to use a memory card (USB or another kind) to
save
>> settings between boots of a Live CD/DVD.  I believe it was posted not
too
>> long
>> ago and I thought I had kept the email, but now that I'm looking
for the
>> information, I can not find it.  I've done some searching and I
either get
>> way
>> too many hits or way too few, none of which are what I'm looking
for.
>>  Does
>> anyone remember that post and can forward that message to me?  Thanks.
>
> Unless I'm missing something, you must be remembering another distro.
Had
> some discussions on this during 5.2 live CD testing with Patrice Guay who
> builds the CentOS live CDs.  Knoppix has a feature to save to USB, and
> Fedora 9 uses "persistence" to save changes from their live CD,
but as of
> 5.2 CentOS livecd does not implement it.
Yet another option is to use Scientific Linux LiveCD/DVD:

http://linux.web.psi.ch/livecd/save.html

Being a "sister" product of CentOS, SL might be a viable option for
CentOS users.

Akemi

I remember someone saying one had to include some options on the boot
command line for this to work.  Nothing was automated for this to work.  It
took a little bit of work and that is why I saved the email or at least meant
to save it.  I was almost positive it was the CentOS list that I saw the
post(s).  I know it wasn't Fedora, because I don't read any groups for
that.
 It wasn't Knoppix.  It was definitely a LiveCD/DVD.