Read only Disk and Ram-Drive

From: Oded (o_at_sadglad.com)
Date: 06/16/04

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    Date: 16 Jun 2004 02:43:01 -0700

    Hello,

    I'm new to Linux,
    Can a Linux system, running just X, a simple window-manager, and a
    Java application be completly read-only ( use the disk as Read-only) ?
    If so, how do you set it up?
    If it does have to write to the disk ( like maybe the to /var ), how
    can I set up a ram-drive so that it will write to ram while thinking
    it's writing to disk ( like is done in Live CD's )?
    ( I know I can customize a Live-CD for this, but I want check the
    option of running from a normaly installed OS instead )?

    Any help will be much appreciated,

    Thanks,

    Oded.

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