[Gllug] Ubuntu LiveCD persistent home

[James Goldwater]

NorthLondon John wrote:

>
> On 11 Dec 2004, at 00:37, James Goldwater wrote: .
>
>>
>> Ubuntu [...] Live CD would be perfect, if I could get a persistent 
>> home on a USB pendrive working.
>> I've never done this before: I've tried adding home=/dev/sda1 and 
>> home=/mnt/sda1 to the boot options: neither works.  Is there some 
>> magic incantation I can use?  Ubuntu live-cd seems to be a derivative 
>> of morphix, and there's mention of a morphix.img loopback home 
>> directory in the grub menus, but I am, to tell the truth, rather 
>> confused.
>>
>> Any ideas/completely obvious google queries I could have tried/howtos?
>
>
> To be blunt - and I am very pro ubuntu - the live cd isn't as good as 
> Knoppix by a long way. For knoppix with Persistent Home see:
> http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/PersistentHomeHowTo
>
> As far as I know, there is no persistent home script on the Ubuntu 
> live cd - but I rarely use it and don't really follow the discussions 
> about it.
>
> There is a FAQ for Morphix PH - Ubuntu is based on Morphix - at:
> http://www.morphix.org/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?cat_id=7#q67
>
> Otherwise, I suggest asking on the ubuntu-users list - or, if you 
> want, I can forward your email and you can watch the replies on gmane:
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user
>
> Or you can go through the unofficial forums mail list interface:
>  http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=6

Thanks for the URLs.   Annoyingly, Knoppix docs are down at the moment 
)-:  Just for the record, I found the knx_persistent_home script on the 
web and used it to create both a .knoppix and a morphix.img (as far as I 
can tell, they are just a blank ext2 filesystem which can be mounted -o 
loop)  but of course, no joy there either. 

I shall inquire on the ubuntu lists.  It's frustrating: Knoppix would be 
far too overwhelming, Ubuntu seems perfect.  Grr....

James.
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