a SuSE question

[Tony Alfrey]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 02:52 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Man-wai Chang wrote:
>>>> I have an old SuSE 9.1 CD. I'd like to boot from it, into KDE. It has a 
>>>> variety of install options but I /assume/ that's not what I want, but 
>>>> that I want to run the Rescue disk and then, when it comes up in a 
>>>> terminal, somehow start KDE?
>>> news://forums.novell.com
>>>
>>
>> Hmmmm.  The link seems to be dead.
> 
> This is an answer I got on the openSUSE list:
> 
> "Unfortunately you can't start kde from the rescue. It only provides a
> minimal run for repair purposes. You would need to do in install to get
> the graphics interface."
> 
> 
> Seems reasonable. All the live CD stuff seems newer than 9.1. So if you
> want to do a check of KDE, I guess you need to do an install.



Yes.  I was trying to solve a boot problem and I'm not very good at the 
command line.  But I think that I traced the problem to a bad SATA 
controller.  Thanks for checking!



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