Hi, Gar Thank you for answering to my question. I like the idea, and am going to try it ASAP. Best regards, Radule
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
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