On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:43:54 +0530 Abhijeet D Mhatre wrote:
There should be a way in which, after my system boots I unmount the partitions or else my system boots such that the partitions are not used at all.
Boot into rescue mode from a bootable Linux CD. You'll end up with a minimal filesystem on a ramdisk and (optionally) your hard disk partitions installed in some subdir of that filesystem. Try Googlizing linux rescue for more help.