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Oifan

Member

Registered: 2016-07-04

Posts: 1

SliTaz 5 Live-USB persistence? (Ext2 / Ext3 / Ext4)

Greetings,

The SliTaz 5 (rolling) Linux Live-CD is one of few Live-CDs that runs well on older hardware (I have EBOX 3350MX with Pentium-class CPU and 512MB RAM and also HP T5530 with Pentium-class CPU and 128MB RAM -- both don't have PAE and cmov features).

It has also good package management, works nicely on older hardware :-)

I have used YUMI to put several Live-CDs on one USB-flash drive - e.g. TinyCore, Puppy, Lubuntu, ... and also SliTaz 5 (rolling).

What I miss the most in SliTaz is the possibility to save all my changes and installed packages WITHOUT creating a separate PARTITION on USB-flash drive, but using a persistence file - similar to these distros:

    # Ubuntu    casper-rw

    # Puppy     warysave-*.2fs / puppexsave-*.2fs

    # TinyCore    mydata.tgz

My question is: Will this kind of persistence be supported in SliTaz some day?

Thanks,

Oifan

JClu

Member

Registered: 2018-09-14

Posts: 1

Re: SliTaz 5 Live-USB persistence? (Ext2 / Ext3 / Ext4)

hi, reviving this post from Oifan but going further in needs :

in tcl :

  - mydata.tgz keeps home while you can have

  - all the packages you installed (extension in tcl's jargon) in a dir

     (perfect for customization, even from outside tcl)

same with slax and derivatives resp. :

  - "changes" can be dir or file keeping home content

  - "modules" (as they are called there) are stored in a dir

some of these features are missing from slitaz :

  though you can expand your rootfs to store more stuff (and append to boot commands)

  there is no automation in "rc" scripts to maintain backups (in packed files or in dirs)

  for changes in users env. and for installed packages,

  nor do we have a possibility to "manually" add packages in a default (or custom) dir,

that will load at boot time

such set of features and associated utilities toolset

  (to pack/unpack/convert/... dir(s)<->file(s))

would greatly improve slitaz usability and lower barrier to customization (as you go).

Prefering live distros to traditional ones (security, no-brainers, ready-to use...)

and loving frugal installs (in less that 5mins! you get all of it done)...

I'm sure we are not alone, so is there anyone up to the task? is it utopian?

Like Oifan said : great package collection and nice env. to work with...

Just a little extra push and we have th perfect distro for (almost?) every taste/purpose

thank you all for your kind attention and i hope this whish found its way to mighty individuals capable of greatness : many thanks to them in advance

JClu

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