Re: light-weight rescue live CD?
On Wed January 10 2007 20:45, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:28:38PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:13:38PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > > Of course this won't work with my new box: SATA drives, LVM on raid1,
> > > etc. Knoppix is a huge iso and I'm on dial-up in the country (2K/s)
> > > and will take 72 hrs via ftp.
> >
> > There are some small (~100 MB) rescue CD distros out there. However,
> > you might want to consider one of the many services out there which will
> > send you CDs for a nominal fee. I've seen them for as little as $5 for
> > a set of Debian CDs (all of the binary CDs at least). A single Knoppix
> > CD might be even cheaper.
>
> I'm looking for debian-based since I know how it works e.g. setting up
> networking, raid and lvm stuff, etc. It'll only take 9 nights to get
> Knoppix so I'll do that and perhaps later make a USB-based rescue set up
> like I had for woody-floppy (with 4GB instead of 1.44 MB to play with).
Have you had a look at http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ ? You might find
that interesting.
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