Originally posted here by very_unhappy
see this thread

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=276536

how can I make live cd distro take writable control over the hda (ext3) i just need to
My guess is that the live cd automounts the ext3 partition as ro (read-only), so you just need to remount it as rw (read-write). Assuming that the ext3 partition is hda1 and that it's currently mounted at /mnt/hda1
Code:
mount -o remount,rw /mnt/hda1