[SOLVED] Saving Settings

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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.