[SOLVED] Saving Settings

[cypher000]

Hi Thank you all for the help that I have been given to date. It has enhanced my appreciation of LL 2.0. immeasureably. I can now browse the internet with Firefox and enjoying the experience. I have also solved the problems I was having with Thunderbird Mail and am now able to send and recieve mail from Karoo with no bother whatsoever. 
Sadly I am having to re enter all the data everytime I load LL 2.0 and thats a pain. I remember that years ago when I was using Knoppix 5 I was able to save all my settings on a thumb drive and not have to re enter them every time I boot up.  I have a spare thumb drive and am wondering if and how I could do this in LL 2.0.? Could anyone guide me into the details of how to? If I can get these things sorted out I think maybe, before long I would be willing to remove Win XP and replace it with LL 2.0.

[colinkx250]

Yes you can. I followed a YouTube video swapping peppermint for linuxlite and now i can put my usb thumb drive in any pc and it will load drivers and remember everything I’ve done just like a normal hard drive. Its not too hard to do although it may appear so. Here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLoYBobV...wsyfqwm3lQ

[gold_finger]

Sadly I am having to re enter all the data everytime I load LL 2.0 and thats a pain.

I'm assuming that you have not installed LL to the hard drive and that you are only using the live CD right now.  A live CD is not writable, so it won't save any changes you have made during the session.  Two ways around that are:

*  Use UNetbootin to create a bootable USB stick with "persistence".  Persistence file will allow you to make and save changes to the live USB.  (One thing you should not do on live USB w/ persistence is try to run and install system updates.  That won't work, so don't do it.)

• Install UNetbootin to Windows
  
• Plug in USB stick (2GB or larger) that is formatted as FAT32 (most new sticks are already formatted that way).
  
• Run it and choose the LL ISO file you downloaded from internet to make live USB.
  
• Tell UNetbootin to use remaining space on USB for a persistence file (can be up to 4GB in size)
  

*  Use live LL CD to do a real installation to a USB stick (preferably one that is 16GB or larger, but 8GB would work if necessary).

• Follow instructions on video posted by colinkx250, which shows how to do a real, full-blown installation to the USB stick instead of it being a live USB with persistence.
  
• Just be sure to carefully follow instructions, making sure that you choose the USB as the destination for the installation and for the location of the boot loader.
  
• This will be the same thing as installing to the hard drive of computer, except it will run from the USB stick (and be a bit slower than from hard drive).
  
• You can do anything to that installation that you would an install to the hard drive, including installing system updates.
  
• As a side bonus, doing this will give you experience with a real installation.
  

If your computer does not currently allow booting from a USB stick you can get around that problem by using something called Plop Boot Manager.  Download the ISO file for that, then burn it to a CD.  Start your computer with both the Plop CD in the tray and the LL USB stick plugged in.  The computer will boot to the Plop CD and then you select to use Plop Boot Manager.  From there, Plop will see the bootable USB and offer a choice to boot from it.  Choose "USB" from the menu and your LL USB will then proceed to boot the computer.

[cypher000]

Many thanks for the very useful information. I now have a lot of meat to chew over and am looking forwards to getting fully setup. Thanks again for all the help you have given me. Much appreciated. Walt

[altman]

Wonder if this could be of any help to you sir , it s what I m using when I screw up my install , which is often , keep experiment in a bad way ! lol

It s a backup system for backups & reinstall , you can do other things with that app also .

http://www.unixmen.com/systemback-restor...ous-state/

Is it for the hole system or your Email settings after loging out of it .

[N4RPS]

Hello!

Thanks, gold_finger! I have been looking for something like this.

It'll be nice to have this, and not have to reinstall when I mess something up!

73 DE N4RPS
Rob