Thanks, James. That's what I was hoping. Further and better particulars will have to wait until I get back to the computer, I'm afraid. Anything in particular? So far, I was I just enabling sshd (chkconfig --levels 345 sshd on), turning off the firewall (chkconfig --levels 345 iptables off) and then "shutdown -r now". Upon reboot, no sshd. Now I know what to expect, I can dig around more specifically. Tim On 25 Oct 2011, at 10:52, James Heather wrote: > You've understood correctly. Changes anywhere that's under / should persist, except for temp-style directories: /tmp, /var/tmp, /var/cache/yum. > > Something else must be going wrong. I think we'll need more details to work out what. > > James > > On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 10:50 +0100, Tim Coote wrote: >> Hullo >> I'm trying to use livecd to test fedora upgrades non-destructively. To make this work, I really need to be able to use the persistent overlay to fix drivers. I'm using the standard command: >> >> livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 2047 /path/to/live.iso /dev/sdb1 >> >> However, this is not working as I'd expect. If I boot from the resulting usb drive and change the configuration (eg to enable sshd), then the changes are lost on reboot. >> >> Have I misunderstood how persistent overlays are supposed to work - I'd interpreted the documentation to mean that the overlay can persist changes from /, as well as just providing a persistent overlay to /home? >> >> tia >> >> Tim >> -- >> livecd mailing list >> >> livecd@lists.fedoraproject.org >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd > > -- > livecd mailing list > livecd@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd -- livecd mailing list livecd@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd