topic title: Installing a frugal install of Antix
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BitJam
Joined: 31 Aug 2009
#31
rmcellig wrote:I think I got it! I was able to boot into the frugal install.
Congratulations! I'm sorry I misled you with my original post.
How can I know for sure?
Run the command"df -h". It should show several things mounted under /live.
Where do we go from here regarding persistent boots? Is this where all the fun starts? __{{emoticon}}__
Yes! This is where the fun starts.

Navigate to RemasterCC in the desktop menus and run the program that enables persistence. If you have plenty of space on your drive I suggest about 1 Gig for root and 1 Gig for home but much smaller values will work just fine.

To run with persistence, you must add a persist=xxx boot parameter to a grub entry and then reboot. Here are the ones that we provide in the Live bootloader but there are other possibilities as well.

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       Root Persistence: persist=root!,home 
Static Root Persistence: persist=root!,home,static
       Home Persistence: persist=home!
The exclamation point means that we will throw an error if that form of persistence cannot be enabled. So the first example will give an error if root persistence cannot be enabled and it will try to enable home persistence but won't complain (much) if it cannot.

Static root persistence is generally slow because it saves file system change directly in the rootfs file instead of saving them in RAM while you are running. The up-side is that it does not use any RAM. If you want to do a big system upgrade or install a lot of packages then it might be best to do this while static root persistence is enabled and then run the remaster program (also in the RemasterCC) to transfer all of those changes to the compressed squashfs file we call linuxfs. You need to reboot to use the new linuxfs file that was created.