Puppy Slacko-5.6 - Can I update without losing data.

[alexham36]

Hi, Mikkh,

Just downloaded Puppy Slacko V.5.6 and tried it off a CD. It has several improvements,of which the most useful to me is that it can operate Epson Scanner on Wi-Fi.

I am running the previous version off a USB stick and I would like to install the latest version onto an USB stick, but I am wondering if that is possible without losing data.

Many thanks,

Alex

[merchant42]

It depends on whether you have made the USB persistant

Have a look at this, it is not directly answering your query but you might find it interesting

mobalivecd.mobatek.net/en/

Try this to istall to a USB, if the distro allows persistence you should be able to get your pen to save data.

www.linuxliveusb.com/

[mikkh]

Never done it myself, but apparently replacing the following files from the newer version is all you need to do

vmlinuz
initrd.gz
pup_xxx.sfs

[alexham36]

Thank you Mikkh. I got into a mess attempting to use Win32DiscManager to write the new version onto a USB, which would not boot and all my data disappeared. I then burned a CD with Nero and installed to USB from the CD. I will recover the address book from Windows, so all is now well and working perfectly.

Before I did anything I copied OpenOffice to another USB and then I transferred the file onto the USB with Slacko. I was able to install OpenOffice on the fly, without using my bandwidth with that large download.

Thanks again,

Alex