On Tuesday 27 April 2021, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I need to boot into my crashed Tumbleweed system to copy some files onto a second ssd within the computer. I have several install disks from different dates, including one from a couple of days ago. I would be happier if the boot disk does NOT include an installation, since I'm afraid I might wipe some of the data off the existing crashed drive. I have two different Linux systems and Windows 10 available to do the job. I have looked on Google, but most of the information there is designed to install a system. I I am assuming that if I can boot a Linux system from CD that I can then read the internal drive and copy files to another drive. If I'm wrong, then what do you suggest? Please keep it as simple as possible, I'm not a guru! Thanx--doug
A bit of googling on the opensuse rescue boot will lead to pages such as: https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/archive/42.1/startup/html/book.o... As described in the above, use/make an install dvd/usb-stick and boot it into rescue mode. You can then use the mount command on the rescue media to mount the crashed drive's partitions, perhaps using -o ro to mount to mount them readonly. You can then also mount any destination partitions and do the copy. Michael