Ubuntu Live CD Persistent Home on usb key.

[James Cummings]

Is what Michael is after the home=scan that is available on Knoppix?

Paul: I've been assuming that because it was possible in Warty, that
is is possible *somehow* in Hoary, and it is just the syntax or steps
or instructions have changed.  Are you saying that it currently is not
possible to do persistent home directories in the Hoary LiveCD at all?

I've also tried just using the /dev/sda1 usb key as a whole as a home
directory (rather than an image on it) and that didn't work either.

Is there a way, once booted off a Live CD to find a list of what cheat
codes that CD actually understands?  (since many obvously aren't in
the boot prompt help screens).

-James

On 6/10/05, Paul Sladen <ubuntu at paul.sladen.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Michael Richter wrote:
> > > Does anyone else have suggestions on how to make it work?
> > [..] so I can just plug in my USB key and have my system set up the way
> > it needs to be (particularly useful in a static IP environment) and my
> > home directory comfortably mounted?
> 
> Anything's possible the problem is that there are too many possibilities.
> For your part, can you help define what should happen:
> 
>   (a) What devices should be hunted for
>   (b) Should they be plane devices;  FAT devices with a loopback
>   (c) How to ensure that livecd and USB key version match before proceeding
> 
> If you can come up with a good flow-chart/task-list of points and order they
> should be done in (and put it up on the wiki) then I expect somebody else
> can help you take that and work from it.
> 
> Don't worry, you don't have to know how it works at the lowest level, but it
> needs some more fleshing-out beyond ''plug a device in and it works''.  Try
> to describe the steps involved.
> 
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