After booting the Debian 8.2 netinst iso I noticed a couple of oddities.
First, I selected advanced and rescue, but this seemed to end up walking me through the installer. I was expecting to be dropped into a shell. At the screen that asked for system name I switched virtual terminals.
Second, vgimportclone is on the system, but when I try to run it the message is "vgimportclone: not found". It is the only vg* command in /sbin that is not a symlink to lvm but a shell script.
Are these behaviors expected? Any recommendations for a rescue image that has at least lvm, parted, and ext4 utilities?