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| Martyn_ | quick Q | 22:32 |
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| persia | ... | 22:32 |
| Martyn_ | Does jaunty have a "home directory on USB" for users of the live filesystem? | 22:32 |
| Martyn_ | I seem to remember it did have something like that, but I can't remember for the life of me where the config is... | 22:32 |
| persia | kinda. | 22:32 |
| Martyn_ | to allow a persistent home without install... | 22:32 |
| persia | The live environment has a persistent mode, which can be enabled by booting with the right kernel command line. | 22:33 |
| persia | The distributed images don't enable this by default. | 22:33 |
| Martyn_ | enlighten me please... | 22:34 |
| Martyn_ | I can update the fis configuration on the Babbage then, and it would be useful | 22:34 |
| persia | I forget the line, and the location of the documentation, but the easiest way to discover it is probably to use usb-creator to create a USB stick from the desktop iso. | 22:34 |
| Martyn_ | because it's really not possible to have a babbage boot a full install quite yet | 22:34 |
| persia | There's an option in the wizard to set the persistence location, and then you can examine the syslinux configuration to determine the command line (or boot it on something) | 22:35 |
| persia | Why isn't it possible to have a babbage boot a full install? | 22:35 |
| persia | The live image boot process is *more* complex than the installed image boot process. | 22:35 |
| Martyn_ | because where can I put the persistent storage? | 22:36 |
| Martyn_ | -heh- | 22:36 |
| persia | Well, it depends on what you do. Most of the traffic I've seen about it seems to involve using USB drives. | 22:37 |
| persia | Same for people playing with the SheevaPlug. | 22:37 |
| Martyn_ | Yeah, I can do a USB drive I guess. | 22:41 |
| * Martyn_ will need to go find one .. I used to have a couple | 22:41 | |
| persia | The issue I suspect you're encountering is the inability of the kernel to reload the partition table form a device with a mounted partition. | 22:41 |
| persia | As a result, any excess partitions that may exist on the install media are unavailable as installation targets. | 22:42 |
| persia | Which gets confusing if one has a device that has a (small) preferred boot mechanism, and no secondary boot devices. | 22:42 |
| persia | (this leads us back to the discussion on bootloaders, which I don't intend to revisit in full just now :) ) | 22:43 |
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