LiveCd? Which f these is a LiveCd?
 

I have a few Suse cd's and don't know which of them can be used as a LiveCd.

suse linux enterprise desktop 10 sp2 DVD and
language add on pack CD(release 2)
Acer resource CD for TM 5720 series suse linux
TraveMate 5720/5320 series extensa 5620/5220 series resource CD

I have installed Ubuntu onto my system and can't seem to access the openSUSE. Also my Ubuntu seems to be acting a bit weird and can't seem to read the reiserfs that my SUSE was preinstalled on. I am hoping that a LiveCd will give me access to the openSUSE's /boot partition so that i can copy chunks of it's menu.lst into Ubuntu's. I guess another option would be to reinstate the openSUSE's grub although i would then have to edit that one's menu.lst and i'm not sure how the kernel updates in Ubuntu would automagic their way into that. Either way around i need access to the reiser /boot and can't seem to get that through my slightly wonky Ubuntu at the moment.

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

Perhaps none...

It might well be that none on your list is a live-cd. You can easily download a live-cd from openSUSE.

http://software.opensuse.org/

Have you tried to download a copy of Ubuntu 9.04 to use as a live-cd and see if it will read and write Reiser?

Hey, thanks for the reply :)

Downloading is a bit of a problem unless it's just small updates and i don't have the Ubuntu cd anymore either :( I don't understand why my Ubuntu doesn't handle reiserfs, i've tried installing a couple of packages hoping that something might get dragged in as a dependency or something but just don't seem to have had much luck.

I haven't tried any of those Cds in case one of them starts trying to install or format or 'recover' otherwise damage the data on my /home partition (or the Ubuntu partitions)

Anyway, thaks and regards from
Tom :)

Why not try them...?

Hint on GRUB setup:
For every installation, set up soft links for the kernel and initrd files in /boot so that they always have the same name---then you can always configure GRUB in any distro without having to remember the file names. I use simply "vmlinuz" and "initrd"

Ooops, that all got quite confusing, got crossed in the postings and some other odd things happened too.

Thanks Pixellany tho :) Soft links? Doesn't a new kernel and initrd file get added each time? How does the link point at the newest ones?

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

I found the files now on the /boot partition (sda3) so does this line look likely?

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.60-0.33-smp root=/dev/sda3

It's that bit at the end "root=/dev/sda3" that worries me. Ubuntu uses Uuid numbers which baffle me but i think i can still use this other way?

New files never get added unless you do it---it could be part of a system update, but you still get to decide. If there is a new kernel and/or initrd, just make new links.

UUID takes getting used to. Basically, the device gets registered such that the system does not care where it gets connected. Go to /dev/disk and look around. For example, you will see that the uuid files are just soft links to the more familiar sda sdb, etc.

Ahhh, i see. Thanks again Pixellany :)