Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

[Raffaele Sandrini <rasa@gmx.ch>]

On Friday 04 July 2003 13:36, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
> I'm looking for a bootable rescue CD-ROM with some Linux-based OS on it
> (preferrably Debian). It should include utilities like fdisk and mkfs,
> parted, grub, bash (please, no ash!), vim, ssh and a reasonable ftp (what
> about ncftp) client. lynx, X are nice, but not a requirement. It should be
> capable of mounting common filesystems like ext2, xfs, vfat.
>
> I've looked into Knoppix, which is a little overweighted (KDE3) and
> somehow failed to get along with a chrooted lilo the last time I used it
> (rendering the disc essentially useless for my purpose). Maybe a
> customized Knoppix CD-ROM would do the trick.
>
> Any comments? What do you use?
>
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You can check out the Superrescue from the Kernel distri mirrors 
(ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/v2)

Its RedHat based... but pretty useful.

cheers,
Raffaele

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