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)


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