Radule Soskic wrote:

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 03:07, BandiPat wrote:

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On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:01 pm, cikasole wrote:

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Is it possible to override default behavior of suse 9.0 live-eval CD and prevent it from writing to any of my hdd partitions ???

... I don't know as I don't have a SuSE 9.0 live CD

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For instance, it never writes to an ntfs file system, regardless of amount free space it founds there, but it readily writes on an reiserfs, as soon as it finds enough free space.

How to control this ??? I do not want my /dev/hda3 busy after booting I do not want my /dev/hda3 busy after booting live eval.

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If you can't control the "live Cd", may be the answer is to control your SuSE partitition "hda3" by making it read only. (/etc/fstab/) see man init Depending on what you have on it, starting with SuSE maybe you could go into single user mode (init 1) via tty1 (ctrl-alt-F1) after logging out of your desktop, make "hda3" read only and then shut-down the computer Then start up you "live CD" and because hda3 is read only, it can't write to it so it will have to find another place to do its 'swap" etc. Hope this helps, Friendly greetings, Gar -- In the Beginning was the Command Line ---Neal Stephenson -- __________________________________________________________________ New! Unlimited Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Act now to get a personalized email address! Netscape. Just the Net You Need.