Persistent usb, /etc/network/interfaces overwritten

Just a quick tip. Bringing it up because I couldn't find a good solution from googling around.

After following one of the many posts on persistent usb installs, I would lose my changes to /etc/network/interfaces on reboot (it would revert to the default contents).

Based on some brief poking at initrd.gz (scripts/casper-bottom/23networking), it seems you can fix this behaviour by adding "STATICIP=frommedia" to grub's menu.lst. So the relevant entry on my USB stick now looks like:

Code:

title Start Persistent Live CD kernel /boot/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper persistent rw quiet vga=0x317 STATICIP=frommedia initrd /boot/initrd.gz

Not sure if there's a better way to do this, but it seems to be working.