What you will have to do is to store the persistenthome on the usb drive. What I do on these drives is to use mkfs -t ext3 so that you get a journaling file system which is self-recovering, to some degree, if something should happen to it. You have to do this as root. Make the file system on the thumb drive.
When you have done this, you will have to change the permissions, while still logged into Oralux as root. chmod a=rwx followed by the drive, probably /dev/sda1 or sda something, depending on the number of USB storage devices you have going there. When you have done the chmod a=rwx /dev/sdxy where x is the the drive number such as /dev/sda and the y is the partition number for the drive such as 1. It is best to format that drive as one large partition so that you do not have to worry about such things as that when you are looking for your files. Now, make the persistenthome directory. If it asks you if you wish to use the entire partition, tell it that you do, so that you can be sure you have enough room available on there. Now you are ready to saveconfig all your configuration files so that they are always there. Aftert this, you can copy all the files over so that you will have them to take back with you. Hope this helps, and Merry CHRISTmas. -- Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST! Oralux: http://oralux.org P.S. To find out if you are behind any kind of firewall, ask your father. If you are on a home network, you probably are behind a router that might have firewall software on it. When you get back, see if you can send. If not, we can address this again. I really don't have enough information on the vm question. _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
