Dear Slug Users thanks to all who posted with pointers on how to mount RH 9.0 hdb ext3 fs drive onto a SuSe 7.0 ext2 fs drive from within SuSE.
After several hours of no success I got hold off a Knoppix 3.3 bootable cd. Someone on slug suggested this and I can only recommend that every Linux user should have a Knoppix cd purely for the reason for using it as a recovery platform. I was able to mount all drives and cp till kingdom come. All happy again and now data restored and a fresh RH 9.0 install is running along nicely. With Thanks To All dvr btw: It appears that Knoppix can be used to access password protected machines with no problem at all -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
