[SOLVED] The "old" save.dat problem
Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 18:28
Hi porteus community,
let me present to you, I'm not a newbie on Linux (openSuse on desktop since 4 years and happy to be on Linux) but newbie on porteus. I discover the possibility to have an OS on a mini usb-stick and I am enthusiastic about that!
I like the porteus distrib for its capability to run in the RAM memory, its very fast on my laptop (and more rich than puppy).
On my laptop runs windows 7 and I would like to be able to read & write the usb-stick on windows and linux, so I prefer to stay with the FAT32 formatation. Problem: in this constellation the porteus stick does not keep the changements, although I followed striktly the documentation, saved the .dat file in /dev/sdb1/something/save-steve.dat and updated the lines in the /boot/porteus.cfg file, but it doesn't work. All changes are lost after every new boot.
By the way, I installed porteus with the windows utility Universal USB Installer.
Now I'll try the following steps: Reformat the usb-stick on win 7, burn the porteus.iso file on a CD and make the usb-install from the live-CD, so with the "original" porteus utility, perhaps this works better ? In the first time I'll try to stay with Fat32 on the stick. Perhaps you can help me in the case of persisting problem.
In a second time I would like to be able to save the changes also in the copy2ram case, I'm not sure what to write (and where) in the porteus.cfg file, but one step at a time...
Thank you.
let me present to you, I'm not a newbie on Linux (openSuse on desktop since 4 years and happy to be on Linux) but newbie on porteus. I discover the possibility to have an OS on a mini usb-stick and I am enthusiastic about that!
I like the porteus distrib for its capability to run in the RAM memory, its very fast on my laptop (and more rich than puppy).
On my laptop runs windows 7 and I would like to be able to read & write the usb-stick on windows and linux, so I prefer to stay with the FAT32 formatation. Problem: in this constellation the porteus stick does not keep the changements, although I followed striktly the documentation, saved the .dat file in /dev/sdb1/something/save-steve.dat and updated the lines in the /boot/porteus.cfg file, but it doesn't work. All changes are lost after every new boot.
By the way, I installed porteus with the windows utility Universal USB Installer.
Now I'll try the following steps: Reformat the usb-stick on win 7, burn the porteus.iso file on a CD and make the usb-install from the live-CD, so with the "original" porteus utility, perhaps this works better ? In the first time I'll try to stay with Fat32 on the stick. Perhaps you can help me in the case of persisting problem.
In a second time I would like to be able to save the changes also in the copy2ram case, I'm not sure what to write (and where) in the porteus.cfg file, but one step at a time...
Thank you.