On Wed, Nov 22, at 11:47:21AM, Kerry Mayes wrote: > I may be onto a solution. I was wondering whether there was a later version > that fixed my problems and found some discussion on the slax.org site under > "proposed for next version".
That refers to version 6.0 which will get rid of rc.hotplug and probably replace it with rc.udev I have Slax 5.1.7.6 standard edition, email me offlist if you would like a copy posted, no charge. > Because Slax is designed for live CD it has some contorted methods of saving > configuration changes. are you using 'slaxconfig /mnt/path-to-save-file/slaxconf.mo' at the prompt? they admitt there are problems but go on to say that if you use the 'changes=device' parameter at boot time it will work. > BTW: Another method is to specify a "changes=(device)" option at boot time > where the changes will be stored.... >... (Or I may be doing it wrong, I'm specifying the device name as > /dev/sda, consistent with the instructions on slax.org, but the device is > mounted as /mnt/sda_removable - confuses me, maybe it confuses slax as > well!) i'll look at this tonight, it may refer to a partition - eg 'changes=/dev/sda1' > Would it be worthwhile me putting this sort of stuff on the wiki? I see > there is nothing on the use of Slax there already. always useful to put pointers about anything on the wiki although I recommend you wait untill you find the solution to using slaxconfig before doing so. -- keith.
