From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 616ADBC6B for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:22:17 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAD67hEdA6aLui2dsb2JhbACQHAEBAQgEBCQFkkaGcA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,264,1196636400"; d="scan'208";a="21067566" Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.238]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 09 Jan 2008 21:22:16 +0100 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id x7so200080nzc.3 for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:22:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=k3x7jU+0QT70kKwjUkQFy5HVVt6Qj9MsnY4/k4R4Yr4=; b=w2gMmRMJcigXI1ENmLRg7pCgsDNHRQ3Z1Kj2OacxyNkUQ1P/PAqZsLR0ackw9l+VlDB7ZsfHZgsnf/JketxuGaVC4nN6UA8alhS9daZ7jsxUgi4EPpBBK1yCLzDD83wQhR869TdRiksZeyRInXBqxai5h4E6vptL+EuqVWzk0Rk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=luoEeuv8QFrAYUYQmjJ7aqYw8W3JJHUW4XfwL0pSeU4dIKpWPSOU5LVUBLIG2bxRFOn3CZ6Voim9yJ3ushD85hsJoulJCHHXTDTSy7nlRRu82BmbnW4/6tPLpkhpx2fVXCIrWfn+Bo/9j2B6rWQEj4aSWGl5X7hW0YDalCiJxlw= Received: by 10.142.77.11 with SMTP id z11mr563617wfa.98.1199910135240; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:22:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.138.17 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:22:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:22:15 +0100 From: "Dominique Martinet" To: Adrien Subject: Re: Re : Re : [Caml-list] An ocaml livecd Cc: "Mehdi Dogguy" , caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <666572260801081313x27755808t6761eacaea13ef55@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <666572260801080658o226cba0bs8696e3bf01e61e61@mail.gmail.com> <200801081517.34568.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <4d1b2df20801080829j8c2fecg5b2b06be665805c1@mail.gmail.com> <4d1b2df20801080830o592d9344t91f830ac2af71a97@mail.gmail.com> <666572260801081235s7129e1dao7702a723b4c8f709@mail.gmail.com> <20080108210134.GB25697@pps.jussieu.fr> <666572260801081313x27755808t6761eacaea13ef55@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam: no; 0.00; martinet:01 ocaml:01 read-only:01 emacs:01 tuareg:01 caml-list:01 boot:01 lazy:02 data:02 modules:02 caml:02 module:03 cleanup:04 usb:94 usb:94 Alright. As Adrien said, Slax indeed is read-only. However, there are quite a few tricks, and you can set up some saving without too much trouble, and I personally set the slax on my usb stick to save my cookies because I'm somewhat lazy. I usually have a messy home, so I don't save it, but you could as well (I think there are already some works on it, I remember reading a "persistent" function somewhere, but I didn't try it myself), by simply editing your /etc/rc.d/rc.6 and rc.0 (shutdown and reboot scripts) to copy the data to your usb pen before shutting down, and slax has a directory they copy straight to your / during the boot process. For larger or other saves, you would probably want to make a module, and it's not really hard as long as you don't install many things at once, since AUFS has got a directory (here, /mnt/live/memory/changes) which keeps tracks of the change, and you can simply copy a bunch from here to get all your updates at once without much cleanup afterwards. I don't know how knoppix or other liveCD distributions manage modules or user modifications, but I really do think that slax fits quite well on an usb pen. --- As a side note, I think I'm the one supposed to add emacs to this system - adding both tuareg and caml modes shouldn't be a problem, as long as he gets me interested *coughs*