I would seem so.
If you have two with the same name, the one that shows up on the screen is the first one on the list.

I wanted to do something like that but I had the idea that it would muck up someting.
Easy to remember and hard to forget is the way here.

You've been most helpful.
I can now run my Linux based app off a lightweight distro in a netbook by just booting from an SD Card and keeping all settings in the HDD.

And should the SD Card goe south for any reason, installing the same distro in the same manner on any other SD Card should get things back to normal.
A dog with with two tails.  =-)

Thanks a lot.

Cheers,

A.

Yes ...

persistence-label=livedata

But I was referring to the first line:

label persistence    <------------------------- this one
menu label vuudo+HDD persistence
kernel /vuudo/live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/vuudo/live/initrd.img boot=live union=aufs  persistence persistence-label=livedata live-media-path=/vuudo/live     

Cheers,

A.

Sorry ...
HDD in a XP setup with an ext4 partition labeled 'livedata'.
SD Card with an ext4 partiton labeled 'persistence'.

This is /syslinux/live.cfg

label persistence
menu label vuudo+HDD persistence
kernel /vuudo/live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/vuudo/live/initrd.img boot=live union=aufs  persistence persistence-label=livedata live-media-path=/vuudo/live      

label persistence
menu label vuudo+SDCard persistence
kernel /vuudo/live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/vuudo/live/initrd.img boot=live union=aufs  persistence persistence-media=removable-usb live-media-path=/vuudo/live      

label vuudo
menu label vuudo
kernel /vuudo/live/vmlinuz 
append initrd=/vuudo/live/initrd.img boot=live union=aufs  live-media-path=/vuudo/live

label memtest
menu label Memory test
kernel /live/memtest86+.bin

Right!
That did the trick.  =-)
Mounting without persistence enabled me to mount both media/vuudo/persistence and media/vuudo/livedata and then run rsync.

I am aware that having two 'persistence' labels has the effect on not showing the second one as a choice at boot time.
Not that I need it, but just to know: does the label have to be persistence? 

Thanks a lot for your help.

Best,

A.

It took me a while but it's done.

The problem I now have is that I need to copy everything in the 'persistence' partition in the SD Card to the 'peristence-label=livedata" 50Gb. partition I created in the netbook's HDD so I don't have to setup/install everything over again.

I cannot seem to get around getting it done: I cannot copy (as root) directly from the mounted partition to a directory on a USB drive (filesystem does not support hard links) and I cannot zip up everything to move just the zip file (some other error) and then unzip it in its destination.

Please excuse my Linux ignorance ...
How can I get this done?

Thanks in advance.

A.

Thanks for the fast reply.  8^)

OK.
Good to know.

Yes ...
I noticed that.
Good 'insurance'.

I guess I can also create and label the partition on the netbook's HDD with GParted. (?)

I think it may be something related to my using a Asus eeePC netbook?

With MIYO-i3 Jessie (I liked the WM GUI) it worked but there was something wrong with X and it would freeze and be unresponsive.
Something about init: Id"X" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.

With Devuan it would not boot but I only tried it a couple of times and gave up, not too much patience these days.

On a separate note: I think there may be something going on with syslinux (different versions?) and the success may also be tied to the OS used to run refracta2usb.

For example, one of my attempts was installing and running refracta2usb from my PCLinuxOS rig (not in the PCLinuxOS repo) and not from my Devuan rig.
The process was properly completed but it would not boot and I saw that the syslinux legend on screen said PCLinuxOS.

The Vuudo image was installed from within my Devuan rig and everything seems to work properly.

I'll try the perisitence on the HDD and see how it goes.

Thanks for your input.

Cheers,

A.

I'd like to know why devuan and miyo wouldn't work for you. They should. I've used both of them on live-usb.

OK ...
Thanks, I'll have a look.

I have managed to set up my bare bones Devuan-Live in a 4.0 Gb SD Card using refracta2usb but with a Vuudo *.iso.
The application I need to use installed correctly but I still have to test it.

Before that, I tried with Devuan-Jesse, MIYO-Jesse, MIYO-i3 and even PCLinuxOS without much luck.

But the setup I am pointing to does not have being portable as a goal.

I would like to boot a light Linux installation to run a dedicated application from a netbook that (for the time being) has an XP installation on it's 500Gb HDD.
The HDD could share some space (100Gb) by means of a separate (inaccessible to XP) ext4 partition which would hold absolutely everything that needs to be persistent.

Could that be done?
I got this idea when I recalled once booting into a W2000 installation with a botched bootloader using a 3.5" diskette with the right files on it.

Thanks in advance.

A.

Basically, you need a separate filesystem, a persistence.conf file in the root of that filesystem, and some extra options in the boot command to use the persistent filesystem.

Yes ...

There's also something going on WRT syslinux versions not being compatible.
Bear in mind that the problem I posted about cropped up only when I resized the SD Card.
Up to that point, everything was perfectly well (apparently). 

The thing is that Refracta gave me no joy either, at least with the Devuan *.iso I've used.
But I was able to use Refracta to set up a Miyo-Extra-ascii on the SD Card.

Persistance seems to be an issue still so I'll have to try again.

Any ideas?
TIA

A.

No error message.

But I had checked, just in case:

This is on GParted 0.31.0 from my PCLinuxOS.

No. Rufus formats the whole card either as FAT or FAT32.

I was thinking about that.
But still, this should not be happening.
I would like to know why.

Thanks for your input.

A.

You'll need to make the fat32 the right size to begin with. If rufus won't let you do that, use refracta2usb. You should make it a little larger than the iso file, so there's room for a copy of the kernel and initrd for booting the stick. If you need to make this live-usb in a Windows environment, you'll need to find another way. Refracta2usb only runs on linux.