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persistence not working



El Wednesday 27 February 2008 12:26:58 Quentin va escriure:
> Jordi Pujol wrote :
> >> # mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdg1
> >> # mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdg2 -L casper-rw
> >> # mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdg3
> >
> > the label casper-rw is for whole filesystem persistence,
> > start with the debug option in the boot command line and analize the
> > file /var/log/live.log looking for casper-rw
> >
> > personally, i discourage the use of whole filesystem persistence,
> > specially in USB devices because all filesystem write and read operations
> > are done on the device, and the system becomes very slow,
> > my advice is try with label home-rw for home directory persistence only,
> > and remaster a live system with the packages that fit your needs.
>
> Ok thank you. I going to try to do that. Do you know where I can find
> the testing live image because it doesn't seem
> to be there <http://live.debian.net/cdimage/> (in fact I tried to have a
> persistent / in order to update the system because
> I need a recenter version of some packages (libc)

the most reliable way to obtain a live image updated with the latest packages 
is create our own image,
to do that, see the wiki and other messages in this list

>
> >> - then I exactly did what it was said. I use
> >> "debian-live-etch-i386-gnome-desktop.iso" from
> >> http://live.debian.net/cdimage/etch-builds/current/i386/
> >>
> >> - eventually i booted on the usb key. It was working well but at next
> >> reboot, all changes disappeared
> >>
> >> Thank you for your answer
> >>
> >> Quentin
> >>
> >>> Hello Quentin and list,
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps there are some points to clarify ?
> >>>
> >>> I wrote this howto and it is based in real experiences starting a live
> >>> OS at the etch level.
> >>> you can be sure that there are a lot of working systems that have been
> >>> installed according to this way,
> >>>
> >>> give more details about how you did your installation. and therefore
> >>> we can find the problem,
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Jordi Pujol
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Quentin <forty at everteam.org
> >>> <mailto:forty at everteam.org>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     hello
> >>>     i followed this tuto
> >>>     (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Hothe partition
> >>>     labwto/Custom_Install
> >>>     <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Howto/Custom_Install>) to make a
> >>>     persistent liveusb
> >>>     but it is not persistent :(
> >>>     do you know if this instructions are good?
> >>>
> >>>     (sorry for my english but i am french)
> >>>
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