Persistence for Dummies - Please

[mychance]

Hi,

I am trying to activate persistence on a USB key with Porteaus 1.2. I went to Porteus save.dat Manager and set up a .dat file. This far I could figure out. Then a message appears that I have to add "changes=/mnt/sdb1/mychance.dat" to the bootloader config. I guess that the bootloader config would be Boot/Porteus.cfg. So, do I add the line anywhere in that file ? I tries it somewhere in the middle and didn't work.

Most of all, where do noobs like me find out these informations wihout annoying you with stupid questions

[brokenman]

Yes everything is correct. In the example below for Porteus v2.0rc1 you should adjust the changes= to point to your new .dat file.

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LABEL razor
MENU LABEL Graphics mode (Razor)
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz changes=/mnt/sdb1/porteussave.dat

[Ahau]

Most of all, where do noobs like me find out these informations wihout annoying you with stupid questions

welcome, mychance!

To answer this portion of your question, the specific info about where to place the 'changes=' cheatcode can be found here:
http://porteus.org/component/content/ar ... d-one.html

and in "Appendix B" of the install guide, which is in the iso at /boot/docs/install.txt or online here: http://porteus.org/component/content/ar ... guide.html

More information in general can be found in our online documentation section, here: http://porteus.org/info/tutorials.html

or in the "HOWTO's and resources" section of the forum.

Hope that helps.

Thanks!