> Well, you can always boot single-user (boot -s). The root filesystem > will be mounted read-only and no service will be started.
That wasn't quite what I had in mind either, though thank you for your time. Have you looked at Puppy linux or SLAX (or the linux-live scripts?) These make it rather easy to run from compact flash or an arbitrary readonly source, and then have a means to store small customisations back. I'm *assuming* that the setup for the CDROM isn't generic enough to handle that sort of thing - or is it? (If I had broadband I'd download and try it - but I just have iSDN so getting ISOs for the hell of it is a chore). James
