RC3 as Boot CD with USB flash drive and persistent changes

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This is all working for me on a newer PC, with 640MB RAM and an old nVidia TNT2 card:

Downloaded the RC3 .iso, burned it to CD, then booted from it
Created two partitions on a 512MB USB flash drive: first one FAT16 (type 6), second one Linux (type 83)
Formatted partition 1 using mkdosfs, and partition 2 using mke2fs
Mounted 1st (FAT) partition as -t vfat on a new /mnt/sda1 directory
Copied the slax/ and boot/ directories from /mnt/live/mnt/hda_cdrom/ to /mnt/sda1 in Konqueror
Changed to /mnt/sda1/boot in Konsole and ran the install script
Mounted 2nd (ext2) partition on a new /mnt/sda2 directory
Created /mnt/sda2/slaxsave.dat and formatted it with mke2fs
Rebooted and chose Slax Persistent Changes from the boot menu, changing the option to: changes=/dev/sda2/slaxsave.dat and adding nocd and vga=normal
Ran xconf and startx, then customized Konsole, Konqueror, and sounds
Logged Out of KDE with my customized windows still open
Rebooted again, entering the same cheatcodes as above
Ran startx and everything was restored as it had been before last Log Out

One quirk I learned to avoid: since Linux treats a USB flash drive as a SCSI hard drive, you can't use the nohd cheatcode to avoid mounting real hard drive partitions. UPDATE: The noauto cheatcode solves this issue.

documented on: Sun May 06, 2007, jayseye