<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:57 AM, David Duckslammer <<a href="mailto:davidduckslammer@gmail.com">davidduckslammer@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Grumble growl snarl. I went out, found myself a wired connection, downloaded and installed the missing usb-creator, created a bootable flash drive. It boots, it runs. It doesn't seem to recognize the wifi adapter, but I am at a place where there is only one access point and it is private. However the persistence feature doesn't work. I modified syslinux/text.cfg per the instructions on Vincent's page and that still didn't work. However linux was reporting i/o errors on shutdown. So I bought a new thumbdrive, reinstalled, modified text.cfg - no more i/o errors on shutdown but still no persistence. Got to have persistence. There are drivers and apps I can't use this system without and no way to save them otherwise. What do I try next? </blockquote><div> </div></div>Hmm OK, that's just weird :S Might be a stupid question, but: did you select "Stored in reserved extra space" and move the slider to the right? Also, perhaps you could give it a try at another PC? If the problem isn't in the USB flash drive, it might be in the computer, as that's the only thing that might differentiate the steps you followed from what other people did (where it did work for them). -- Vincent