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How to remember settings?

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tobiaus:
thanks! that means i don't have to copy bzImage to linux.

i'm sorry! i couldn't figure out why the settings weren't saving. it's because forever i've ignored the exit settings and used sudo commandstorebootorpoweroff and i'm supposed to use exittc. it's gui only, if exitcheck.sh works by itself i'll use that. i was beguiled by friendly "syncing" messages... :( obviously sync just syncs, it's doesn't have magical powers. thank you! i never had a usb linux key before, it's fun.

8-bit:
As to settings being saved on a frugal install, I have found that when I set up backup, install a program like Opera, bookmark a page with it, and exit....
First, the Backup box is checked
Second, I am told when I pick shutdown or reboot that Backup has not been set up.
Third, although my applications that I installed reappear, configuration settings in them have dissapeared.
As an example, Opera, on a reboot, always comes up like I just installed it and my bookmarks have dissapeared.
Is this a glitch or am I just a dumb end user???

tobiaus:
it sounds like a glitch. you mention you set it up, are you referring to the restore option? is the frugal install still the one on virtualbox?

8-bit:
OK, first I did a frugal install.
Then I set up BACKUP to point to the subdirectory on the harddrive I installed to.
Then I installed some apps from the TCZ selection.
I fired up Opera, agreed to the license agreement, searched for and bookmarked the TinyCore forum.
When I went to reboot, I was told that BACKUP was not set up.
The entry I gave to backup was 'hda1/tce'
After reboot, all settings gone.
And at reboot, same message about backup not being set up.
On booting, it looked like the TCZ files in the TCE directory were extracted and added.
I have the restore option set up in grub too.

roberts:
If you instruct TC to place your backup in a subdirectory hda1/tce then autoscan upon subsequent boots won't find it.
Therefore no restore occurs, you would have to add the boot option of restore=hda1/tce

If you want autoscan to find your backup/restore then you should simply specify the backup of hda1
That is don't use a subdirectory.

This is covered in the Getting Started document, see Backup/Restore section.

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