Saving changes - Persistence Category

The following tutorial enables the average computer user to run gOS Linux from within Windows without rebooting. gOS can be run from a folder on your Windows PC or from a folder on your USB flash drive or other portable device. Keep in mind that there is currently no persistence feature being utilized in this tutorial. The installation acts just like the Live CD and the gOS operating system is being emulated using Qemu, a virtual machine emulation software. Qemu emulation makes for a great and easy way to test out a Linux distro without modifying the host computers hardware.

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Once you have accomplished a sucessful boot of SLAX Linux and have begun to make changes and customizations to the SLAX environment, you might wish to save those configuration settings back to the USB stick. This will allow you to restore those changes upon next reboot.

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This tutorial will show you how to use a persistent home from within PCLinuxOS MiniMe on a USB stick. A persistent home should allow you to save your settings and changes to the USB stick so that they may easily be restored upon subsequent reboots. Please note that this tutorial will only work on the older releases of PCLinuxOS (releases previous to this post date 03/09/06).

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Once you have successfully booted Knoppix Linux from your USB flash thumbdrive, you might find that there are changes you would like to make and settings you need to adjust. After getting everything the way you want it, you will need to save your changed settings back to the stick and have them automatically applied at boot. The following instructions illustrate how to boot from Knoppix Linux, save your settings to the USB thumbdrive and then restore those saved settings upon reboot.

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