Live Cd Persistence

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:56:13 +0800
"Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-19-02 at 09:07 +1100, Yuki Cuss wrote:
> > I believe the implication is that you use persistent as a kernel argument;
> > `` Hit <F4>, enter in “persistent” on the kernel arguments list and boot 
> > into your new custom Live CD environment. ''
> > 
> > Eg. type `linux persistent'.
> 
> Is this a joke?!  You have to type in Mystic Incantations<tm> at boot
> time to get to use your USB key's persistence?  Why not just make the
> Live CD look for the device "casper-cow" (or whatever) automatically and
> just load it if present and ignore it if not present?  What, exactly, is
> gained by making people type random crap on the keyboard at boot time if
> they happen to want to save settings between sessions?

I'm sure the developers will be happy to look at the patch you are no
doubt supplying to fix this  ;-)

Peter