The changes I make to my live session don't get saved upon reboot

[Steve Flynn]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Aaron E-J <azintirea at gmail.com> wrote:
> So in February my computer crashed and after a bit of hassle, I
> installed 8.10 to a flash drive in early April. Then, this week I had
> access to a good enough network to upgrade to 9.04, thinking it would
> be much better and it is, with one huge problem – the changes I make
> don't get saved upon reboot. (I wish I had tested this sooner) I have
> heard that there is some work around involving partitioning the drive
> in ext2 format with a specific name. The only problem is this is
> probably for the full install, not for the live session. I don't want
> to do a full install to my flash if I don't absolutely need to as it
> takes up too much space and I want to use the space to install more
> programs/features. Anyone have any idea why my settings are not saved?
> I guess the first thing I'll try is reinstalling the live OS, but
> failing that, anyone have any suggestions?

So you're saying that yo've installed Ubuntu onto your machine (i.e
you're not just booting the Live CD image). You log in with your
userid, make changes to the installation and when you reboot your
changes are lost? Sounds like you haven't actually installed it to a
writable drive and are booting from the installation image.

Can you clarify how you installed?

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Steve
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