Okay, I can think of more reasons why the Puppy multisession live-DVD is a good idea, but let's start this page by introducing the concept...
This is a world-first (or rather, a "world-second", as the guys from the Morphix project let me know that they already had something similar developed! My understanding though is that Puppy's multisession system is by far the most sophisticated -- so, it is a world first for this level of sophistication and practical usefulness).
Live-CDs have become popular, but none save your personal data and settings back to the CD. Most of them can't anyway, as they are too big, at least for a CD. As Puppy is only about 39M - 60M, there is about 600M free space on the CD, so why not put it to use?
And then there is the DVD... over 4G storage on a single-layer DVD. In fact, we have found DVD to be superior to CD in other ways: saved sessions do not suffer the approximate 12M wasted space in each saved CD session, and DVD incremental session burning is more refined ...meaning, it just works better.
So, the rest of this page will focus on the DVD, but you can still use a CD if you wish.
To get going with Puppy multi-session live-DVD is quite easy. There is nothing complicated to do to set it up, it just works. After you have downloaded the live-DVD ISO file, the only slight difficulty is that you need to use the right software to burn it to a DVD -- detailed install steps are given at the bottom of this page.
So, how does it work? What you have to do is boot the PC with the multi-session DVD inserted in the DVD-burner drive -- thus, Puppy automatically knows which drive is the DVD-burner, in case you have more than one CD/DVD drive. Then you use Puppy in the normal way.
At shutdown, all new and changed files in your home directory are saved back to DVD. That's it. Next time you boot, all the personal files are restored.
