On Saturday 17 March 2018 16:00:40 William Morder wrote:
On Friday 16 March 2018 20:46:11 Glen Cunningham wrote:
On Saturday 17 March 2018 13:23:10 William Morder wrote:
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If anybody has anything to offer - for instance, how to make any computer boot from that flash drive? - I would be most grateful, as the experiment has been mostly successful otherwise.
Bill
G'day Bill, Have you tried Slax? https://www.slax.org/en/introduction.php A "proper" Debian on a flash drive. Only one thing, it does not have the TDE/Trinity desktop. However, there is "Slax with Trinity" https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Slax_with_Trinity which would be brilliant except that the "Persistent Changes" feature has been broken! I have tried to find how this feature can be enabled for the Slax with Trinity version, but I'm not smart enough. :-( Any help to fix this would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Glen
Yes, I tried several versions of Slackware: Slax, Salix, Slackware proper, and a few others (I think) that I can't remember, including, I believe, one that had Trinity already installed. Now, this was a few years ago, and maybe my computer skills have improved since then, but that didn't work for me.
Slackware systems appeal to me in theory, as Frankensteins are not such a problem (or so I hear); but in practice, I could not get a Slackware system to work for me.
Slax used to be a Slackware derivative, however since version 9 it is PURE DEBIAN! Sorry about the yell. :-(
So, if you are clued enough in Debian, can you please show me how to restore the "Persistent Changes" feature in the Slax with Trinity version? Ta, Glen