[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] About installing Sugar on a stick... with "--format"

[Frederick Grose]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 11:35 -0400, Frederick Grose wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> {...}
> >
> >         Think if you use --delete-home you will always have a fresh
> >         new sugar
> >         installation upon reboot, as the home directory will be will
> >         be
> >         re-created. As a test can you boot SoaS set the name/color, do
> >         some
> >         actions that write to the journal, then reboot and note if the
> >         journal
> >         entries are preserved.
> >
> >         Jerry
> >
> >
> > Not so.  See livecd-iso-to-disk --help
> >
> >
> > ...
> >     --delete-home
> >         To prevent unwitting deletion of user files, this option must
> > be
> >         explicitly selected when the option --home-size-mb <size> is
> > selected
> >         and there is an existing persistent home directory on the
> > target device.
> > ...
> > (A non-persistent SoaS can be made by not using the --home-size-mb and
> > --overlay-size-mb options.)
> >
>
> Ah I see, should there be a pre-existing /LiveOS/home.img it should be
> deleted and recreated when that option is used on the cmdline. Got it,
> been away from the livecd stuff for awhile, used to be really active on
> the livecd mailing list a few years ago.
>
> Now with using --format there will be no chance of saving a
> pre-existing /LiveOS/home.img for reuse anyway, so no need to delete
> home.img before hand. Maybe drop that option?
>
> Jerry


That is correct.  I've updated the wiki.

          --Fred
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