I'm having issues making extensions persistent. Many hours with zero results (so far).
I'd really like to figure this out.
Following "Getting Started" in the Wiki, I'm able to boot from a LiveCD.
Using a TC session, I downloaded gparted and formatted a 4 GB USB on sda1 as ext3.
I reboot, specifically following the advice from gerald_clark at this thread:
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All you need is a tce directory on /dev/hda3.sda1
Boot once with the boot option "tce=hda3sda1"
Install your applications, make your changes, do a backup.
Here is what I've noticed (perhaps some of this is by design):
- I needed to mount sda1, even if I use boot option tce=sda1. I used control panel tool for this mount.
- I needed to specifically mkdir /tce and /tce/optional on /mnt/sda1. They did not simply appear as a result of boot option tce=sda1. Should they? I've seen two different answers to this question in the forums. (apologies, I don't have the specific citings...lost track of those).
- Even after I mkdir /tce and /tce/optional on /mnt/sda1, the App Installer does not automatically put downloaded extensions in either of those places.
- In hopes of copying the downloaded extensions (eg: opera.tcz) to /mnt/sda1/tce/optional, I tried to find them under /tmp/tce, but they were not there (nor was /optional, for that matter). I couldn't find a utility in control panel to help me locate the downloaded extensions.
- Finally, when I go to reboot, TC kindly pre-populates the the 'backup' checkbox and indicates a backup path of '/tce'. But then I get a message when i hit OK saying, "Errors occurred during backup! See /tmp/backup_status" I'm unable to troubleshoot because no such file or path exists.
Can anyone provide guidance? Thanks very much for reading the post.