[SMS]

[baz00r]

Hi everybody,

I love this little distro but was wondering if there is any way to enable persistence? I am running this on Unified Networking Lab as a liveCD. I don't see any option on startup to create a persistence file, is this possible?

Many thanks

[gerasimos_h]

One way is to boot SMS from USB and store changes directly on USB or a .DAT file.

If you still wanna use LiveCD use a .dat file stored in a USB or on disk, or you can even use a valid partition that SMS can write on, on booting machine.

Download savedat.zip and choose which size do you want to use.
Beware because when you unzip it, it will expand to the actual size.
http://repository.superbminiserver.org/Archives/SMS.Native.CD/extra/savedat.zip

Also look at bootcodes (changes=) at
http://sms.it-ccs.com/wiki/#LinkTarget_1961


Regards
gerasimos_h

[baz00r]

Hi gerasimos_h,

Firstly, many thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately the only option I have is a LiveCD ISO, as this is all that Unified Networking Lab supports currently. Anyway I downloaded those .dat files and extracted them into the same location as my ISO file. I went with the 256MB dat file and renamed this to "save.dat".

The path to the ISO is
/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-sms/cdrom.iso

The path to the .dat file is
/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-sms/save.dat

I went to "Run SMS" and pressed tab. And added this to my boot parameters.

changes=/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-sms/save.dat

After booting I changed the IP address of the Eth0 interface to 192.168.1.2 with a netmask of 255.255.255.0.

Then I typed "reboot", selected "Run SMS" again and put the same boot parameters in, unfortunately the ip address configured on the eth0 interface did not stick.

Perhaps I am missing a step somewhere? Do I need to explicitly tell SMS to write the config changes to file or something before rebooting?

Thanks for the assistance.

[gerasimos_h]

You need to set a path that SMS will have access while booting, I don't thing that SMS is seeing that path you gave
"/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-sms/save.dat"

If it's on another disk it will see something like "/mnt/sda1/opt/..."

Regards
gerasimos_h