The changes I make to my live session don't get saved upon reboot

[anthony baldwin]

Steve Flynn wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Aaron E-J <azintirea at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> So in February my computer crashed and after a bit of hassle, I
>> installed 8.10 to a flash drive in early April. Then, this week I had
>> access to a good enough network to upgrade to 9.04, thinking it would
>> be much better and it is, with one huge problem – the changes I make
>> don't get saved upon reboot. (I wish I had tested this sooner) I have
>> heard that there is some work around involving partitioning the drive
>> in ext2 format with a specific name. The only problem is this is
>> probably for the full install, not for the live session. I don't want
>> to do a full install to my flash if I don't absolutely need to as it
>> takes up too much space and I want to use the space to install more
>> programs/features. Anyone have any idea why my settings are not saved?
>> I guess the first thing I'll try is reinstalling the live OS, but
>> failing that, anyone have any suggestions?
>>     
>
> So you're saying that yo've installed Ubuntu onto your machine (i.e
> you're not just booting the Live CD image). You log in with your
> userid, make changes to the installation and when you reboot your
> changes are lost? Sounds like you haven't actually installed it to a
> writable drive and are booting from the installation image.
>   


That's what it sounds like to me, and, of course, in that case,
changes won't be saved.
Everytime you boot from the livecd, you will be starting from scratch again.

/tony



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