[EMAIL PROTECTED] (andrew zajac) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Burton) wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a "live CD" Linux distro which > > includes ddrescue? (Ideally, it would also have decent > > support for USB external drives.) > > > http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/ > > Ubuntu Rescue Remix is a GNU/Linux live system which runs from CD or > USB flash device. It provides the data recovery specialist with a > command-line interface environment equipped with the best free-libre, > open source data recovery and forensics tools available. > It has the latest version of Gnu ddrescue. It's free.
I tried the Ubuntu remix CD, and couldn't get it to work. But I found the Parted Magic Live CD, which also includes ddrescue (currently version 1.6). It takes up only about 45 MB, and it works well. It is a no-frills, no-nonsense distro, which boots directly as root, with no password nonsense. I especially like the USB-flashdrive version (rather than the CD version): it boots quickly, and the USB stick is writable, so it serves as a good place for ddrescue to put its logfile. I was pleased to discover how easy it was to make the bootable USB stick, and that doing so did NOT require reformatting the USB stick or deleting the files already on it. The only issues I've seen so far with it are: 1) No info or man page for ddrescue (nor, it appears, for much else) 2) No Perl! So I can't use my collection of Perl scripts that I customarily use with ddrescue. http://partedmagic.com/ Dave ncdave4life at gmail dot com but please no spam _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
