Does HD Installation have Persistent Store Like Live USB ?

[utu]

@ Krishna

Please tell us about your hard drive format, partitioning and/or sharing.
Do you use a multi-boot arrangement?

[Forester]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the replies. Hmm ...

When I said HD installation I meant the HD installation that folks mean when they post a question and tell us they have a HD installation in the hope that that means something. Now it seems that may be every HD installation is different.

I guess the one I meant was the one you get when you boot the CD with the LXDE desktop, go to the main menu, select preferences and then KNOPPIX HD install. I did not realise folks might mean something else these days.

When I answer a question on the forum, I know what happens with the LiveCD and LiveUSB but I really have no idea how it goes with the HD installation. Somewhere I read a HD drive installation was effectively Debian in disguise so I guessed there was no persistent store and no UNIONFS. I guess I guessed wrong.

[Werner P. Schulz]

..but I really have no idea how it goes with the HD installation.

... the HD-installation will be done by '/usr/sbin/0wn' and '/usr/share/0wn/0wn-installing' => function copy_to_disk().

The installation is a copy (rsync) of decompressed KNOPPIX to a HD, partioned with ReiserFS and a separate swap partiton. Have a look to my screenshots: Terminal1 and Terminal2

Greetings Werner * http://www.wp-schulz.de/knoppix/summary.html
Own Rescue-CD with Knoppix (Knoppix V6.4.4 remaster)

[krishna.murphy]

@ Krishna

Please tell us about your hard drive format, partitioning and/or sharing.
Do you use a multi-boot arrangement?

Re: multi-boot: Not really - I mean, it could be, but I never bothered to create a Windows install that was good. This drive has some data preserved on it, rescued from bad systems' drives, against a highly unlikely need to resurrect them. I keep putting off the task of rationalizing it - probably because I take an inordinate amount of pride in keeping stuff functioning long after it's gone past the point of reasonable return on investment.

As far as the format (partitioning) goes, here's a breakdown:

/dev/sda1                FAT32             6GB
/dev/sda3                Extended        190GB
   /dev/sda5             ext2            177GB
   /dev/sda7             linux-swap        2GB
   /dev/sda6             FAT32            11GB
/dev/sda4                NTFS             37GB

As you might guess, the piece-meal approach I used (over time) is responsible for the screwy numbering on the partitions. Partition 1 was created last, in order to have a free space to use for the flash-install routine (it's not the first entry in the partition table, but that's okay.) There's a 2GB knoppix-data.aes (copied from another system where I was using a similar setup previously) along with the immutable 4GB Knoppix 6.2.0 files.

Hope that makes sense!

Cheers!
Krishna

p.s. I mount and use the NTFS partition sda4 for storage when I really need it, but the system load created by using NTFS makes it last choice when downloading. The second FAT32 partition on sda6 is much better, though that format limits max. file size. While I don't like the NTFS performance, I never lose data because of writing to it.