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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: metoo on August 19, 2015, 03:15:23 PM

Title: no persistence, not saving anything
Post by: metoo on August 19, 2015, 03:15:23 PM

I would love to use Tiny Core, but I've already spent 2 entire days trying to get anything to save settings.
I've watched the videos, read all wikis, and read persistence for dummies, but nothing is being saved.

I want to keep everything on the USB, within /tce/optional and any other folder in USB.
I've managed to get firefox in onboot.lst and it can be loaded manually, but no saving settings here either.
I would expect firefox would at least be loaded and ready on startup with icon in wbar.

When I use waitusb=5 or 10 or even 20, it seems to ignore /tce folder on usb, then when its started I get stuck at command prompt, and xsetup and startx are shown as commands not found.

Anyone have ideas?

Title: Re: no persistence, not saving anything
Post by: volkerp on August 19, 2015, 05:37:49 PM

Hi metoo,

welcome in the forum! Please send the output of

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showbootcodes
and

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cat /opt/.filetool.lst.

Title: Re: no persistence, not saving anything
Post by: metoo on August 19, 2015, 06:06:17 PM

I've been booting to default choice, but have also tried option for waitusb.

tc@box:~$ showbootcodes
initrd=/ubninit loglevel=3 cde BOOT_IMAGE=/ubnkern

tc@box:~$ cat /opt/.filetool.lst
opt
home
tc@box:~$

Title: Re: no persistence, not saving anything
Post by: gerald_clark on August 19, 2015, 06:52:46 PM

cde is for CD drives only.  It prevents persistence as CDs are read-only.

Title: Re: no persistence, not saving anything
Post by: bmarkus on August 20, 2015, 12:24:05 AM

UNETBOOTIN is not compatible with TC, so it is not a big suprise.

Please read FAQ.

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/faq.html

Title: Re: no persistence, not saving anything
Post by: ttz on October 02, 2015, 08:22:35 PM

@bmarkus

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UNETBOOTIN is not compatible with TC...

how did u determine UNETBOOTIN was involve? at this point, to me, it is not confirmed by OP. i trust ur right(!), but what took u there?

Title: Re: no persistence, not saving anything
Post by: ttz on October 02, 2015, 08:41:11 PM

my best guess:

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initrd=/ubninit loglevel=3 cde BOOT_IMAGE=/ubnkern

from that, either or both of:

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initrd=/ubninit

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BOOT_IMAGE=/ubnkern

more specific: ubn(init,kern)

yes?

Title: Re: no persistence, not saving anything
Post by: curaga on October 03, 2015, 04:56:51 AM

Yes.