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eppoh · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 28

Installed Macpup on a flash drive and it has been great. One thing is that it always ends the session with 'saving to sbd1 ( my flash drive). Thing is, I don't want anything saved.
Is there a way to keep this from saving the session?

It always asked me when running in RAM from the CD.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

Wild suggestion. Look for the menu.lst on the USB and edit it to have a pfix=ram in the end of the line that says kernel in the beginning.

On my system it looks like this

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

Ooops

if you have a save file that you want to keep then yopu can go into the mount and and find it and change its name and then only load it when you need it and most likely when it has nothing to say to the program will ask if you want to creat a save file?

another trick would be to rename it and move it several subdirectories deep?

eppoh · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 28

Béèm · Posted: Sun 28 Feb 2010, 19:09 Post subject:

This question has been asked several times and responded too.
I don't remember the answer.
But try the puppysearch link in my sig and you might find the related threads.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

Here is another way.
Boot with pfix=ram.
Go through setting up keyboard, mouse, display, and be sure to set up your internet connection and any pets you might think you need.
Remember to keep additions small depending on ram you have.
Now that that is done, remaster using a blank cd.
When you boot from it, you should not have to go through the initial setup again.
Of course when you shut down or reboot, It will ask if you want to save your settings.
Since your remastered CD already has them, just decline.
You could also then install the custom one frugally to hard drive and run without making any pupsave file.

Those are my thoughts on it.

`f00

Me neither, sometimes. For a simple save/nosave option with a savefile on flash . . .

/etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown ~lines732-740 (Macpup-Op, lines671..) relevant section follows:

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

yes these two suggestions are way better than my wild guess.

1. How does one do a remaster? I want to learn. Sorry if hogging the thread.

2. Changing those line was way more easy even for me. Smile

if later one want to save new things added one change it back?

Heheheh, I get how to find that part but not what I should change. Shall I comment out like this.

snowshaker · Posted: Mon 01 Mar 2010, 12:17 Post subject:

If you don't save the session the first time, then it will keep asking you in subsequent sessions and you can say "no".

Another way to do it is to buy one of them real cheap SD USB card readers that look like USB sticks except you have to put an SD card in it. Puppy will write to the stick on poweroff, but if the SD card switch is slid over to the "lock" position, it can't save and at that point will not be able to complain about it. You will have to prepare the new card all over again. Maybe just make it bootable and copy the files over.