Till now let's see what we have test.
1. Boot from dvd is working OK
2. install on usb with dd, liveclone, install-on-USB.sh is working OK
3. Programs running from live environment are running OK
4. Persistence is not working.
So let's concentrate on persistence.
Mimosa, I have confirmed these but i want also you to test and confirm.
I have tested the 64 bit live edition.
Lets say my usb is /media/MyLiveUSB (replace with yours)
1. if you don't have already, prepare a live bootable usb with salixlive-xfce (64 or 32)
2. download one of these initrd files (
i486 or
x86_64) and copy them to /media/MyLiveUSB/boot/
become root
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cp initrd.xz /media/MyLiveUSB/boot/
3.
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cd /media/MyLiveUSB/salixlive/persistence/
4. make the persistence file. In fat filesystem persistence file size have to be less than 4096 (file size < 4096)
I made a 4GB file.
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dd if=/dev/zero of=salixlive.save bs=1M count=4000
Make a coffee till finished.
5. format to xfs
6. umount USB stick and reboot
From this point i set up my wireless with wicd. Installed supertux and mozilla-firefox. I played one level on supertux. On second, quit. Next Reboot.
If reboot at once after you installed a lot of programs you will see a cursor but waiting. It saves persistence don't think something is wrong.
I saw wicd connecting to wireless. I run again supertux I was on second level.
I played another supertux level. I installed multimedia codecs and vlc with deps. qt over 150MB and 19 deps are installed.
Played some mp3, mp4 videos with parole, exaile, vlc. OK
Set up greek keyboard and locale. run libreoffice, wrote some testing doc files. And save them.
I run slapt-get --clean to free space. I do this always even in my real installation.
Reboot again.
Everything was there.
Here is a
screenshot of salixlive-xfce-14.0beta1 with persistence
So please test and report back.
Edit: For those want to recreate the iso to work with persistence.
1. Open salixlive-xfce-14.0beta1.iso with isomaster
2. Delete the initrd.xz from boot folder
3. Copy the new 32 or 64 bit initrd.xz (look above) from were you have download it, to boot folder
3. choose save as and save iso in another location.
4. burn iso to a DVD or use it to create a live-usb bootable stick.