I am not booting from a CD-Rom, or even have a CD-Rom on the system I am trying to use my Live-USB on.
When I format a USB drive, the USB drive becomes rubbish and unusable.
If after running format I try and run it again on the same USB, I get the error "Unable to find device: /dev/sda1"
There is still a GUI link for the USB drive, but when I click on it I get a few pop up errors:
_ "Error: <i>org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure</I>"
_ "Directory doesn't exist!"
And after ejecting the USB and reinserting it I still have problems not being able to use it (open it in the GUI or terminal, or address it for formatting)
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I had that unusable USB plugged in as well as my LiveUSB when I tried: "slitaz home=UUID" (<- that is exactly what I typed)
And it worked!
The USB was mounted as /home
Now I can save persistent files in the home directory.
I rebooted without setting the USB as home, to see what was going on.
_ The USB is readable and writeable as /media/stick/
_ it is not given a "/dev/sdX" label (so I can not format the the USB, or use tazusb gen-liveusb etc. on the disk)
Attempting to use the "slitaz home=UUID" with only the LiveUSB plugged in DOES NOT WORK.
_ Further to this using blkid showed me the LiveUSB does not have a UUID, it only shows /dev/sda1 LABEL="SliTaz core" TYPE="iso9660"
On booting the rootfs.gz loaded is from my Read-Only LiveUSB. The second USB mounts as /home and not /. (Saving rootfs.gz to /home means it is not looked during loading).
If someone could tell me another place SliTaz looks for the rootfs.gz when you boot with home=UUID that would be a huge help.
Currently I have a work around where I save Application packages into /home and then run tazpkg before doing anything else (wasting a few minutes).
Thankyou ztealmax and tikbalang. Now I can save stuff when using SliTaz !