Brent L. Bates
2008-Nov-10 20:33 UTC
[CentOS] 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. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research Center FAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: B.L.BATES at larc.nasa.gov vigyan.com/~blbates
Lanny Marcus
2008-Nov-10 21:10 UTC
[CentOS] Running From Live DVD & Keeping Settings Between Boots
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.
Phil Schaffner
2008-Nov-10 22:10 UTC
[CentOS] Running From Live DVD & Keeping Settings Between Boots
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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Philip_R_Schaffner.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 341 bytes Desc: not available URL: <lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081110/72ed9de4/attachment-0003.vcf>
Akemi Yagi
2008-Nov-10 22:45 UTC
[CentOS] Running From Live DVD & Keeping Settings Between Boots
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: linux.web.psi.ch/livecd/save.html Being a "sister" product of CentOS, SL might be a viable option for CentOS users. Akemi
Brent L. Bates
2008-Nov-12 12:41 UTC
[CentOS] Running From Live DVD & Keeping Settings Between Boots
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.