Even though out of town . . . the 10.0 has progressed but on booting now hangs at "Activating swap partitions". I see there is someone with a similar problem at the live-cd users list.
Thanks for your suggestions - 9.2 is not happening at the moment, using the kernel-tmb-2.4.22.21.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
causes a kernel panic on my 9.2.1.
Additional
Well, a response came back on the live-cd users list.
At the boot prompt type: livecd noscsi and YES it booted fine.
And it is all so good. Thank you Anna for putting together the above howto and your help.
Next I will explore installing back to HD!
--Tony