Hello, I have successfully used System Rescue CD as my go-to environment
for running ddrescue. Unfortunately, System Rescue CD is no longer being
maintained (ddrescue there is stuck at 1.21r1), and I really would like
to use the latest version of ddrescue (among other reasons, one of my
requested changes to ddrescue was kindly incorporated by Antonio in 1.23).
Is there another easy-to-create (e.g., ISO image directly available)
live Unix CD that has the basics I need to run ddrescue and keeps
ddrescue better updated? My workflow only uses:
lsblk (to determine device IDs)
ntfs-3g (to mount Windows partition/drive)
ddrescue
(and of course basic Unix commands like ls, cd, etc.). I do not use the
other "rescue" features of System Rescue CD, not in this workflow at any
rate.
Any suggestions for an alternative? I'm quite comfortable around Unix as
a user, but not really as a developer, so while I know I could create my
own Unix environment, download the latest ddrescue source and compile it
myself, it would be a struggle--no doubt an educational one that I might
do one day, but one that at this point in time exceeds my pain threshold
just to use the new features of ddrescue!
Per Scott Dwyer's suggestion when I first posted on this issue in May
2018, I did try to contact the author of SRC with my request, but (a)
the forum no longer accepts new members, (b) there was no reply to the
personal email I sent to the author, and (c) the forum postings which
were light even back then, seem to have stopped completely, with some of
the more recent posts also noting the lack of
attention/interest/manpower for keeping SystemRescueCD active. Looking
at the SRC page on SourceForge, there still seem to be occasionally
releases, but I guess only some packages are updated, not including
ddrescue :-( ).
Thanks!
Shahrukh
_______________________________________________
Bug-ddrescue mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
