+1 for system rescue cd. As far as other handy utility distros. If I'm just resizing a partition, I'll do gparted live (Gui but goes straight to gparted partition editor) and if imaging (backup/restore) then Clonezilla Live.
http://gparted.org/livecd.php http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php -Shawn On Feb 17, 2016 2:15 PM, "Kyle Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > Check out SystemRescueCD[1], which I'm sure can be burned to a USB drive. > Boots to a shell and comes with a ton of recovery tools and scripts to > assist in getting a broken system operable. > > - Kyle > > [1]: https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:04 PM Ken D'Ambrosio <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2016-02-17 13:49, Brian Chabot wrote: >> >> In GRUB, boot to init 1, single user mode.' >> >> >> >> Which is great. If you catch it. And if it doesn't override you (as >> some live install disks I've seen, do). Hell -- I'd be happy with the "rw >> init=/bin/bash" bit for all I need, but even that, for example, isn't >> cutting the mustard on one server I've got. I guess I could spin my own, >> but I figured someone out there probably had a >> stick-it-in-and-boot-to-CLI-no-interaction-needed option in their back >> pocket. >> >> -Ken >> >> >> >> Brian Chabot >> >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey, all. Many's the time I just want to go and fix something stupid -- >>> maybe wipe a disk, or edit a file -- and all I want is to be able to >>> stick in a USB stick and wind up at said CLI. But most distros these >>> days are GUI-based. And Ubuntu Server (say) boots to install, period, >>> which is an >>> >>> extremely-stripped-down-to-the-point-of-useless-for-anything-other-than-install >>> CLI. >>> >>> Any middle ground someone could recommend? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> -Ken >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > >
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