Re: Using a Debian Live image to Invoke a Rescue Shell
Hit the < key until a numbered debian menu comes up. Execute a shell
will be one of your options. Key in that number and you'll get the ash
shell up and can go from there.
On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, john doe wrote:
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:21:52
> From: john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Using a Debian Live image to Invoke a Rescue Shell
> Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:22:12 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On 2/11/2020 1:50 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > I don't know if things have changed or I forgot how to do this
> > but I want to boot in to a Debian image and not install it but
> > invoke a shell so as to clone the hard drive on a Windows machine
> > to an external hard drive.
> >
> > For computer users who are blind, this is a real boon in
> > situations like this because most Linux systems these days can be
> > made to boot talking by striking S when the OS starts to boot.
> >
> > You hear, in English first, "Choose your language."
> >
> > It is, of course, the same setup screen everybody sees so
> > one needs to set language, keyboard and general location to get
> > started.
> >
> > If one wants, they can go through the setup and install
> > the whole works but, in this case, I am doing this because I had
> > a stupid moment and wiped out my Windows home directory
> > after a batch file (shell script) got away from me and zapped
> > every file in my home directory instead of one folder I was
> > trying to zero out. Go ahead and laugh.
> >
> > The idea is to clone the internal drive and then try
> > recovering the deleted files. If something further goes wrong,
> > I've still got all the pieces.
> >
> > I remember doing this same thing a few years ago and
> > there is some way to break out of the setup screen and invoke a
> > bash-like shell in order to run mount/umount and dd. Since I
> > boot it talking, all these applications still talk. After all,
> > it's unix and the speech synthesizer was patched in to standard
> > output right from boot. I don't remember exactly what special
> > key sequence I hit to invoke the shell but need to refresh my
> > memory or learn the new procedure.
> >
> > After learning how to get a relatively new HP Pavilion to
> > boot from a usb device, I think that most all the UFI-bootable
> > images will boot. The one I just tried which did boot is
> > debian-10.2.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
> >
> > I've also got
> >
> > debian-live-10.2.0-amd64-mate.iso and debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
> >
> > The netinst image is only 350 MB while the dvd-1 image is
> > about 4 GB. The mate image is around 2.5 GB.
> >
> > Thanks for any and all constructive suggestions as to how
> > to go from Setup to recovery shell.
> >
> > Martin McCormick
> >
>
> Some hints:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Debian_installer_accessibility
>
> https://grml.org/faq/#toc
>
> HTH.
>
> --
> John Doe
>
>
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