Revisor livecd for soho emergency use

[Kam Leo]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Peter Malcolm Croft Price
<petermcprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:33 PM, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> Peter Malcolm Croft Price wrote:
>>>
>>> However in both scenarios  ppp0 would have to be configured
>>> with username and password to bring up xdsl internet connection.
>>>
>>> I cannot rely on any user expertise beyond restarting the server and/or
>>> booting from the livecd.
>>> Has anyone on the list any ideas about solutions, strategies, gotchas?
>>
>> unionfs i think it was that allowed you to overmount a filesystem on
>> another. So you could mount the rescue filesystem, with the real system
>> config dirs overlaid...
>> Never tried that, don't know if fedora supports it.
>>
>> DaveT.
>
>>
> Thanks Dave that has at least set me thinking and looking at the
> various livecd and and kickstart possibilities. I suppose what I want
> is to find how I can duplicate the Knoppix livecd ability to save
> settings, with Fedora 10. Making sure to remove liveinstall of course.
> Little fingers get everywhere :o)
>
> Peter

Use a flash drive instead of a CD.