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Article #913Re: Another Puppy question
From: L.A.T.
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:58
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:58
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"Bob" <invalid.no@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:gg6the$kn3$1@reader.motzarella.org... > L.A.T. wrote: >> I have burned the Puppy ISO to a CD and can boot from it. Can I customise >> it and then install onto the same CD, and then all subsequent boots will >> incorporate my details? (network and so on) >> >> >> > > If you burned the original .iso to a RWCD/RWDVD, Puppy offers the > option to save any changes to the .iso at reboot/shut down. > > Of the few live Linux versions I've tried, Puppy is the only distro > to offer that option. > > I haven't checked which burning application Puppy uses, but I have an > ancient RWDVD that all of my other disk burning programmes objected > to with various error messages. Burned the Puppy .iso to it and it > now saves any changes with no apparent trouble at all. > > Puppy is a nifty little distro, isn't it :-) > > > Bob It is indeed nifty. I burned the ISO originally to a TDK CD-R80. Is tha the kind of CD that Puppy can write back to? Does this mean that I don't "install" the customised OS but just let it copy at shutdown?
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