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Post subject: persistent home directory fails in Easter-RC4
 Posted: Sep 05, 2006 - 09:36 AM
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Has anyone else had trouble creating persistent home directories on USB thumbdrives with Easter-RC4? I get to the point where I set a size for knoppix.img and it begins formatting then... nothing. Nothing pops up... the USB thumbdrive gets unmounted and nothing is created.
Someone else has told me a similar story of failure with Easter-RC4. I have had no problem previously with 2005-04 creating knoppix.img.
A search of the forums and Google does not bring up any mention of this difficulty... Any ideas what the problem might be? I would like to be able to recommend the latest Kanotix CD for use, but this is something I would need to have working first.
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Posted: Sep 05, 2006 - 10:28 AM
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Hae you tried connecting to the 2005-04 image? This may be a workaround.
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Posted: Sep 05, 2006 - 10:44 AM
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Thanks for the suggestion. Yes... I have used 2005-04 to create a persistent home directory on a USB thumbdrive. I am using it on a laptop right now and it works great.
But I am wondering why Easter-RC4 fails to create a knoppix.img? I ask because I am writing up a HOWTO and will be burning a few Live-CDs, and at this point I guess I will need to use the older 2005-04.
This is a bug the developers need to be aware of... I don't see it mentioned here in the forums. |
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Posted: Sep 05, 2006 - 11:06 AM
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This is a bug the developers need to be aware of
You're right. There are at least two issues with the script mkpersistenthome: The script reads drive information from /etc/fstab where the thumb drive isn't included (it takes rebiuildfstab to get the thumb drive listed). The string for user name is empty "". I think it used to be user "knoppix". |
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Posted: Sep 05, 2006 - 12:47 PM
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| Thanks for explaining where the problem occurs. I will just stick with 2005-04 for the time being - for my purposes, it works great. |
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