Thanks a Million. :)'
-Alby> > > 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
