Re: rescue disk

[Jason Rennie <jrennie@csail.mit.edu>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:56:43PM +0200, George Iordanou wrote:
> Unfortunately i haven't exactly understood the procedure. Do i need
> knoppix? I have the installation cd of sarge.

Knoppix is a "live" Debian distribution on a CD.  I.e. you don't have
to install it, just put in the Knoppix CD, boot the computer and up
comes Knoppix.  Since everything is on the CD, it does not rely on
your hard drive being in working order.  If something is broken on
your HD, you can use Knoppix to fix it.  I.e. Knoppix is the ultimate
Linux rescue disk.

All you have to do is to burn the Knoppix distribution onto a CD.
Here's the image I used:

  http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.6-2004-08-16-EN.iso

The full list of mirrors is here:

  http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html

Jason