> I'm a new LEAF user and I finally formated my boot disk and > loaded the Bering Image. I boot my machine, Bering loaded, and I went > about making my configurations using the menu system and default > editor. (NOTE: Bering_1.0-rc3_img_bering_1680.bin) > > Once all that was done, I rebooted my machine, the system loaded > Bering off the floppy disk and to my disappointment all my changes had > reverted back to the default configurations. I double checked to make > sure the disk wasn't write protected (it wasn't), and I made sure I used > CONTROL-Q and (Y)es to save my configs after every change. > > So what could be the problem? None of my configs seem to save back > to the floppy. The drive light never spins to acknowledge my saving or > anything. Am I suppose to force a save or is it done automaticly? HELP!@!@!@!@
Once booted and running LEAF systems use a ramdisk, not the physical boot media, which is where all your changes were saved. In order to keep your changes across a reboot, you have to manually backup the changes to your floppy. To do this, go to the menu configuration program (which should start when you login...otherwise, type "lrcfg" from a command prompt), and select the backup option (type "b"). You should be presented with a choice of packages to backup. Be sure to backup any packages you made changes to, and your modifications will survive the next reboot. Running from a ramdisk image built at boot-time from stored packages is one of the main things that makes LEAF/LRP based systems different from most other linux distributions, and can take a bit of getting used to. Even after you wrap your head around how everything is supposed to work, it's easy to forget to backup your changes, especially with the long uptimes possible with the simple, stable LEAF distributions. More than once I've been bitten by the sudden, unexplained failure of various network features, only to discover I forgot to save a change made several months ago, which of course went unnoticed until a power outage causes the firewall to re-boot, and forget it's "new" configuration. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Access Your PC Securely with GoToMyPC. Try Free Now https://www.gotomypc.com/s/OSND/DD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
