[Help] Ubuntu 6.06's Persistent Feature
 

Can anyone please point me to the correct guide/tutorials on using the persistent feature (saving/restoring configuration) of Ubuntu 6.06? I'm using the LiveCD feature and would like to save my configuration in USB flash drive.

Am using Knoppix 4 LiveCD as well and it's damn easy (and convenient) to save/load configuration. But I didn't like Knoppix cos it's a bit messy. Ubuntu is very streamlined but there's no convenient way to save/restore configurations.

I was at the Ubuntu forum before but all their solutions area a bit messy and sometimes hard to follow - some say this, others say that...

I have no idea how "fix" your Ubuntu problem, but MEPIS has an OnTheGo feature that may be just what you want. Caveat: I know it only by description, I have never had occasion to use it.

BTW, are you using Ubuntu itself & Gnome, or Kubuntu & KDE?

@archtoad6: Sory for the extremely late reply. Was busy with the "Windows" world but now back to tinkering with Linux. Am using Ubuntu (Gnome) 6.06 LTS - a fan of Gnome :D By the way, is MEPIS a Live CD? Also, does it have GCC and uses Gnome? Thanks :)

Yes it is live. In fact, it was a 1 CD "combo" -- live & install -- before *buntu was.
The default is KDE, but it is, I am told, easy to add GNOME w/ apt-get -- see 2nd code snippet above. Sorry, I've never done this, but gnome-desktop-environment should be a good start. Of course I am running SimplyMEPIS 3.3.2 & the package names may have changed now that MEPIS tracks the Ubuntu repositories. The current package name is probably gnome-desktop or gnomedesktop, I'm not sure.

Thanks for the info on MEPIS. I've just went through the Ubuntu's official forum and still, no solutions/tutorials/guides on persistent storage. Gonna give MEPIS a shot if all fails. By the way, I've browsed through MEPIS official site and I can't seem to locate screenshots. Do you happen to have links to some screenshots? Thanks again :D

Couldn't find any screenshots, what did you want to see?

I did find this tutorial -- How to Set Up and Use Your OnTheGo Drive in SimplyMEPIS 6.0.
It's a bit brief, but I think you can follow it.


I tried it out, here's what I did:

1. Made the OnTheGo thumb drive under SimplyMEPIS 3.3.2 (my regular booted ver.).
2. Copied only .kde to onthego.
3. Tested it on another box booting a SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3 live/install CD.

The instructions worked, the results were a partial success:

• (+) My mouse was for the left hand.
• (+) I had my 8 virtual desktops.
• (+) My custom virtual desktop nav. keys worked.
• (+) My child panel existed.
• (-) My child panel had no contents.
• (-) My custom Quick Launch icons were missing.
• (-) The standard Quick Launch icons were there.
• (-) The "fish", KAquarium, were there (on the Panel) -- they weren't on my source desktop.
• (-) KTimemon (?), the Panel resource display of 3 moving vertical bars, was missing.

I don't know what would have happened if I had used the same ver. of SimplyMEPIS for both parts of my trial. I also don't know would have happened if I had used SimplyMEPIS 6.0.

My main interest in OnTheGo is to transfer my desktop customizations to 6.0 from my current 3.3.2 install.

Thanks for the instruction. Gonna try it out when I have MEPIS downloaded