Customising "Always Fresh"
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Re: Customising "Always Fresh"
just delete rootcopy and it works!
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Re: Customising "Always Fresh"
@wread
Yep, I know..
but you should have mentioned it in the first place,because it is not the "default".
And IMHO (doing so) is contrary to the meaning of "always fresh".
However..
Yep, I know..
but you should have mentioned it in the first place,because it is not the "default".
And IMHO (doing so) is contrary to the meaning of "always fresh".
However..
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Re: Customising "Always Fresh"
Sorry, yes donald you are right. Rootcopy is a nogo in default fresh mode. Also in fresh mode is the base_only cheat which means only 00X modules from base folder will be loaded.
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Re: Customising "Always Fresh"
Ja...., es wird immer schwieriger
Es war schon mal anders!
Es war schon mal anders!
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Re: Customising "Always Fresh"
Not really, Sherlock. Since some settings are indeed in /root, others are in /home/username , when you log in as user "username" [and unless you tweak your Porteus as I do, that user is usually "guest" and so the path with some settings is /home/guest ] , while even other settings are to be found in /etcwread wrote:Do it the hard way:
When you have customized Porteus to your taste, copy the contents of /root to /porteus/rootcopy and you are done. By the next boot you will have it as desired!
Elemental, Watson
So, your solution will not work as it should do.
And you sure not need copy all stuff from /root, /home/guest and /etc into a local-settings module, just the recently changed ones.
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Re: Customising "Always Fresh"
rootcopy/
<DEVICE>/<PORTEUS_ROOT>/porteus/rootcopy/
I got three different Porteus v3.1 and all show it in:rcadmin wrote:I can't find a folder called /porteus/rootcopy. Am I missing something?
<DEVICE>/<PORTEUS_ROOT>/porteus/rootcopy/
Hmmm, noted!rokenman wrote:Please make sure you maintain the correct structure in the rootcopy directory. For example if you want a file to appear at /home/guest/Downloads then you need to put it at: /mnt/sdXy/rootcopy/home/guest/Downloads
About a): Can we do that with e.g. the following cheatcode?donald wrote:Make a "changes" module which you can activate the next time you boot in "allways fresh"mode:
a) In normal session
Open the porteus settings center > changes screen > save session
store this module outside of the aufs- (porteus) filesystem e.g. in the optional Folder.
Next time you boot into allways fresh, activate this module logout/in, should work.
(But sometimes not all of the changes are saved)
or
b) in Allways Fresh
Make your changes > open terminal, su to root and type
save-changes /path/to/the/module.xzm
the path should be somewhere outside of the porteus filesystem --
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'changes=/path/to/file.dat changes-ro'
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Re: Customising "Always Fresh"
Maybe he meant,not on the FS of a device, but as seen from the Linux file hierarchy, that indeed a /porteus folder is not existent...datruche wrote:I got three different Porteus v3.1 and all show it in:
<DEVICE>/<PORTEUS_ROOT>/porteus/rootcopy/
When it's indeed a "changes" module that gets created at logout andput into /porteus/base or such, it is -ro by default.datruche wrote:Make a "changes" module which you can activate the next time you boot in "allways fresh"mode:
a) In normal session
Open the porteus settings center > changes screen > save session
store this module outside of the aufs- (porteus) filesystem e.g. in the optional Folder.
Next time you boot into allways fresh, activate this module logout/in, should work.
(But sometimes not all of the changes are saved)
About a): Can we do that with e.g. the following cheatcode?Code: Select all
'changes=/path/to/file.dat changes-ro'
But I think you meant it lessliteral, and meant the actual changes.dat, which is some kind of file system container file, like so:
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rava@porteus:/mnt/live/memory/images$ mount |grep lsfind
/mnt/sda2/welt/lsfind/lsfind.ext2 on /Lsfind type ext2 (rw)
rava@porteus:/mnt/live/memory/images$ file /mnt/sda2/welt/lsfind/lsfind.ext2
/mnt/sda2/welt/lsfind/lsfind.ext2: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data (mounted or unclean), UUID=4577-881e, volume name "LSFIND"
Cheers!
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