Yes, if you have the usb drive set up as a persistent storage image, the boot cd will see it. Here's how it works. Do this, in order.
First of all, do an mkfs on your usb drive. After this, start the boot cd and set up your preferences as you want them to be for future boots. Now, from the audio menu of the Oralux boot cd, select the item that lets you make a new persistent storage. Watch the wording here. You want to make a knoppix file system image. You do not want to store just a few files on the hard drive. Now, the usb drive will be reformatted and your system image and home directory will be copied to it. How large is your drive. I have done this on a 60 gig drive and it leaves me with plenty of room to store many exotic things. The system will rewrite the file system on the disk drive. You will hear numbers begin to count up, and, possibly, even appear to get stuck on one number. In the case of this machine, the number 96. Do not worry about this. The drive is still being formatted and the script has no way of showing all the numbers at the rate things are changing on disk. When this is finished, all the necessary files will be copied over. Now, how will all this work? Well,Oralux 0.7 includes a program called unionfs that makes the system see all this as though it were all on one file system, although we know it is not. You can now apt-get install, reconfigure packages, add files, and generally construct your own computing environment as you would do on a regular hard drive install, but you can take it with you wherever you go. Hope this helps. -- Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST! Oralux: http://oralux.org _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
