Thanks, Bruno. But it's the persistent / that I want.
On 25 Oct 2011, at 13:22, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:50:09 +0100,
>  Tim Coote <[email protected]> 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?
> 
> I am not sure if the overlay for / will work for /home. There is another 
> option
> to provide an area for a persistent /home.

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