On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 16:06 -0600, winepunk wrote: > I was under the impression the files from the cd are loaded into ram > and that becomes what usually is the hard drive (for live > environment). This seems strange the app should try to write to dvd > and not ram. > Its not relevant whether the CD image is buffered in RAM or not: if the underlying filing system is not writable anything the program writes will be lost. Since it probably expects to read whatever it wrote at sometime in future it would fail anyway. Martin