On Saturday 17 March 2018 16:00:40 William Morder wrote:
> On Friday 16 March 2018 20:46:11 Glen Cunningham wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 March 2018 13:23:10 William Morder wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > > If anybody has anything to offer - for instance, how to make any
> > > computer boot from that flash drive? - I would be most grateful,
> > > as the experiment has been mostly successful otherwise.
> > >
> > > Bill
> >
> >   G'day Bill,
> >      Have you tried Slax?
> > <https://www.slax.org/en/introduction.php>
> >    A "proper" Debian on a flash drive.  Only one thing, it does not
> > have the TDE/Trinity desktop.  However, there is "Slax with
> > Trinity" <https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Slax_with_Trinity>
> >    which would be brilliant except that the "Persistent Changes"
> > feature has been broken!  I have tried to find how this feature can
> > be enabled for the Slax with Trinity version, but I'm not smart
> > enough.  :-( Any help to fix this would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Glen
>
> Yes, I tried several versions of Slackware: Slax, Salix, Slackware
> proper, and a few others (I think) that I can't remember, including,
> I believe, one that had Trinity already installed. Now, this was a
> few years ago, and maybe my computer skills have improved since then,
> but that didn't work for me.
>
> Slackware systems appeal to me in theory, as Frankensteins are not
> such a problem (or so I hear); but in practice, I could not get a
> Slackware system to work for me.
>

  Slax used to be a Slackware derivative, however since version 9 it is 
PURE DEBIAN!  Sorry about the yell.  :-(

  So, if you are clued enough in Debian, can you please show me how to 
restore the "Persistent Changes" feature in the Slax with Trinity 
version?
Ta,
Glen