Re: [Axiom-developer] 20081202.02.tpd.patch (website download.html add Doyen Thumbdrive)

[William Sit]

Dear Tim and Alfredo:

Okay, after some experimentation, I finally was able to 
save changes to Doyen on the USB drive. Probably, it can 
easily be saved on the hard disk as well.

The trick is to run from the USB drive (after it has 
booted into Doyen) /boot/isolinux/liloinst.sh after the 
initial change of the MBR (master boot sector) to make the 
USB drive bootable. liloinst.sh can be applied to a 
partition (not the whole drive according to documentation) 
and so the USB drive should be partitioned first. What 
liloinst.sh does is to include the directory slaxchanges 
where normally it is resident in RAM.

Warning: one should be careful about the device name of 
the USB drive, as it depends on how many hard drives you 
have on the system. All drives are named as sda, sdb, 
etc., with the USB being the last. In my case, it is sdb1 
since I have only one hard drive on the laptop.

I was able to install Fricas and reboot with this saved in 
slaxchanges.

I have also experimented with DSL (damn small linux), but 
the version I used (dsl-4.4.10.iso) somehow do not 
recognize the networks nor the hard-drives. But that is 
probably by design. I think it is trying to get the 
drivers from the Windows system, but that becomes a 
catch-22 situation. However, it is quite robust, unlike 
Doyen, which crashes sometimes on shutdown.


William