Suggestion for Live-CD concerning HD use

[JohnD]

My English is not perfect, although I currently try nearly every day to train it.

I've two suggestions: One, which concerns especially the live CD of Linux Lite, and another one, which concerns every Linux Live-CD.

Situation
Maybe very special and maybe you think, it's therefore unimportant:

I'm using a PC with 2 hard drives:

• an internal drive, build-in, primary drive, commonly addressed as /dev/sda;
• an external drive, connected via usb, commonly addressed as /dev/sdb.

But sda is defect, sdb has no problems and is twice as large as sda.

Reaction of Linux Live CDs
Most live cds -- I've used especially Parsix, Bodhi, Mint, aptosid. -- seem to be able to handle this situation without problems. As far as I can see, their live cd checks sda, recognizes, that there is a problem, but seems to ignore it after 2 or some more tries. Not so Linux Lite. I assume, it tries untiringly to check or use sda. A few days ago, I've canceled the start of the Lite CD, because it wasn't ready after about 30 minutes. Most live cds like Mint or Parsix are ready after few minutes and they do work correct for days.

First Suggestion
The live cd of Linux Lite should ignore sda after few checks, if it has recognized, that sda does no work correct.

Second Suggestion
I'm educated in Linux, but I do not know in detail how live cds do work. I only know, that the technology was introduced by Knoppix. As far as I can see as an user of live cds they all use my sda, for swapping and other purposes.

My second suggestion is, that it might be configurable or the standard, that a live cd does no make any use of a hard drive, which obviously does no work correct, even if it is the primary drive, as long as there is another hd, which works fine. Why the hell do they not use sdb, my external drive, which is twice as large as sda and makes no problems? I have not tried to install Linux to sda, I simply use the live cd.

Regards
JohnD - surely another pseudo.
Linux CD: There is a primary, so I will use it.
Users Ghost: It doesn't work.
Linux CD: I see, but it's THE primary.
Users Ghost: But this primary DOESN'T WORK!
Linux CD: Anyway, I will try this primary thing.
Users Ghost: This primary is dead.
Linux CD: I don't care. I can feel, that it is there, and I need such a primary.
Users Ghost: IT WILL NOT WORK, NEVER EVER. L-e-t  i-t  g-o!
Linux CD: No, no, I will do it all night with this dirty primary.
User: I know it's a machine and a program system, but I need a beer or a tea or I could murder the system.