persistent home: 5 questions

[P5music]

Hello,
I installed tinycore on my hard disk (hp notebook).
I had to use sda1 instead of hda1  for all installation commands, except grub commands where I used hd0,0.
I put menu.lst in sda1/boot/grub
default 0
timeout 0
title tinycore
kernel /boot/bzImage quiet
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz quiet home=sda1

1) I ask if sda1 is right here.
2) I want to install a windows application with wine and I want it to use persistent drive_c. How to do so?
3) The installer seems to see not enough space (80 Mb). Why?
4) Why the backup at logout is slow or crashes? (I have to use xkill)
5) What to do with mydata.gz for persistence?
Thanks in advance

[curaga]

- in grub options go on the kernel line, not on the initrd one
- since you use a persistent home, and drive_c is inside it, it's persistent as well
- if you use persistent home, you don't need to back it up (remove home/tc from filetool.lst, so only files outside home are backed up)

default 0
timeout 0
title tinycore
kernel /boot/bzImage quiet home=sda1
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz

To see what's taking so long, run a manual backup (filetool.sh backup) in a shell.

[maro]

Those 80MB that you said the installer is reporting, could that be what is left of your RAM (e.g. reported by free)?

Don't forget the root file system is in RAM, so how much is available (e.g. reported by df | grep -v loop)?