Persistent Image | Saving Changes & Persistence

Learn how to create and manage persistent storage in your bootable environments. Techniques for using persistent images to save your system settings, installed applications, and personal changes persistently and then restore those changes across subsequent reboots.

 

KNOPPIX Persistent - Saving settings to USB

Knoppix Persistent USB

Knoppix Persistent USB; Once you have successfully booted from your Knoppix USB flash drive, you might find that there are changes you would like to make and settings you need to adjust. After getting everything the way you want it, you will need to save your changed settings back to the stick and have them automatically applied at boot. The following instructions illustrate how to save your changes to the USB drive and then restore those saved changes (have them persist) upon subsequent reboots.

OLD PCLinuxOS MiniMe Setting up a persistent home

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This tutorial will show you how to use a persistent home from within PCLinuxOS MiniMe on a USB stick. A persistent home should allow you to save your settings and changes to the USB stick so that they may easily be restored upon subsequent reboots. Please note that this tutorial will only work on the older releases of PCLinuxOS (releases previous to this post date 03/09/06).

Making SLAX Save Changes & Restore Changes

SLAX Save Changes Persistently

How to Make SLAX Save Changes and Restore Changes Persistently? Once you have successfully booted SLAX Linux from a USB stick and started customizing your environment, the next logical step is to save those changes persistently. Saving changes ensures that all your tweaks, installed software, system settings, and configuration files are preserved, so they are restored automatically the next time you boot SLAX.