With the power and versatility of the cowloop driver, it is easy to preserve your session data in a cowfile on a USB memory stick or on a hard disk.

Procedure

• Create a file, called saved.cow in the root directory of a FAT/FAT32/NTFS/ext2/ext3 filesystem (on USB memory stick or hard disk).
  
  1. On a Linux system you could use the command dd to create a file with a size of e.g. 64 Mbytes:

        dd if=/dev/zero of=/saved.cow bs=1M count=64

  2. On Windows you could take a large file (>32 MB) and copy it to c:\saved.cow
     Copy the file multiple times to create a larger file. In the DOS command prompt, type e.g.:

        copy a-big-file+another-big-file c:\saved.cow

     The ATmission CD-rom contains a script named Setup_Savefile.bat that provides an automated way to create a saved.cow file.

  3. Alternatively: download one of the saved.cow zip files below and extract the saved.cow file to the root directory of your hard disk or USB stick.
  
  
• Make sure the device where the saved.cow resides is available when the ATmission Live CD is booted.
• When ATmission boots, it checks if a file called saved.cow can be found in the root directory of your harddisk or USB memory stick. If such a file is present, it is mounted as an ext2 filesystem.

You can specify the name of the cowfile on the boot prompt. When the boot screen with the numbers 1-3 appears, type the number and add cowsave=XXXXX, where XXXX is the name of your cowsave file. E.g.

1 cowsave=mycow

You cannot specify the device name, so the first file found with that name will be used.

To prevent the boot process to pick up a saved.cow file, add

nocowsave

to the boot prompt.

Downloadable saved.cow zip files

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