Stateless livecd problem

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:27:10PM +0100, Jean-Marie Renouard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I try to make a liveCD from a fresh installed Fedora Core 3.
> The CD boots, the hardware is well detected.
> 1) I have some SELinux error messages ( normal ?)
> 
> 2) As the filesystem is mount in read only mode, none of the services 
> running on my original system
> can start.
> They try to write locks under /var/locks/subsys according to their 
> /etc/init.d scripts but they can't.
> 
> How can we solve this problem in order to be able to restart a server 
> from a livecd with the same services running ?
> How can we set up or mount /var in a read/write mode and keep original 
> data available too ?

Make, on boot, /var a tmpfs filesystem and populate it with the var
files on cd.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha