[TriLUG] live ubuntu [ Was Re: booting an external disk with grub 0.97 ]

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Alan Porter wrote:

>> my wifi settings aren't saved between runs. How do I make them permanent?
>
> When you create your USB stick, there is an option to create a persistent file 
> storage area.

hmm. I didn't create a USB stick. I just dd'ed the iso to the USB stick. I 
couldn't find instructions to create a USB stick. Where are they, or what do I 
do?

> This is the "casper-rw" filesystem that is overlaid on top of your read-only 
> cramfs in a "union-fs" way.

yes I know about it, although I don't understand how it works.

> Anything you save to the filesystem will be stored in this casper-rw file. 
> It's an ext3 filesystem image on your memory stick.

well this was going to be my next question, where do I store stuff?

Joe

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