You might also look at Knoppix
(http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html) which I've worked with
before. A full live CD/DVD, it's also got a menu on startup that lets
you pick CLI startup as well as various X, framebuffer, ACPI settings
for twitchy machines. Includes a bunch of utilities like p
Thanks for the suggestions, all. I tried to use the recommended
SystemRescueCD, but the download was s-l-o-w... (for all I know, was my
fault, but I didn't have 2+ hours to wait for it). Found this while
googling for similar things: https://en.altlinux.org/Rescue [5] . Half
the size, and downloa
+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
Ubuntu has the mini distro, but I think your only option with that is to
install it.
Richard Kolb II
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio 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
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'
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,
In GRUB, boot to init 1, single user mode.
Brian Chabot
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio 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
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