On Saturday 17 March 2018 16:00:40 William Morder wrote: > On Friday 16 March 2018 20:46:11 Glen Cunningham wrote: > > On Saturday 17 March 2018 13:23:10 William Morder wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > If anybody has anything to offer - for instance, how to make any > > > computer boot from that flash drive? - I would be most grateful, > > > as the experiment has been mostly successful otherwise. > > > > > > Bill > > > > G'day Bill, > > Have you tried Slax? > > <https://www.slax.org/en/introduction.php> > > A "proper" Debian on a flash drive. Only one thing, it does not > > have the TDE/Trinity desktop. However, there is "Slax with > > Trinity" <https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Slax_with_Trinity> > > which would be brilliant except that the "Persistent Changes" > > feature has been broken! I have tried to find how this feature can > > be enabled for the Slax with Trinity version, but I'm not smart > > enough. :-( Any help to fix this would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Cheers, > > Glen > > Yes, I tried several versions of Slackware: Slax, Salix, Slackware > proper, and a few others (I think) that I can't remember, including, > I believe, one that had Trinity already installed. Now, this was a > few years ago, and maybe my computer skills have improved since then, > but that didn't work for me. > > Slackware systems appeal to me in theory, as Frankensteins are not > such a problem (or so I hear); but in practice, I could not get a > Slackware system to work for me. > Slax used to be a Slackware derivative, however since version 9 it is PURE DEBIAN! Sorry about the yell. :-( So, if you are clued enough in Debian, can you please show me how to restore the "Persistent Changes" feature in the Slax with Trinity version? Ta, Glen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
