[wellylug] Recommendations for the best linux rescue disk - please

[Nigel Walters]

Tony,

No, I haven't tried that. Will try when my disk test is finished.

Thanks for the idea
Nigel


On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:45, Tony Booth wrote:
> Have you tried booting Knoppix into text mode?  Most often, I've found
> that graphics is the thing killing the boot.
> 
> Otherwise, LNX-BBC has some good stuff
> (http://build.lnx-bbc.org/packages/).
> 
> Cheers
> Tony
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel Walters [mailto:nigel.walters at ihug.co.nz] 
> Sent: Thursday, 18 September 2003 11:15 a.m.
> To: wellylug
> Subject: [wellylug] Recommendations for the best linux rescue disk -
> please
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Since Knoppix, in my experience only boots about 50% of older PC's can
> anyone tell me of a decent rescue cd (or floppy possibly) which will let
> me test memory, hard disks as well as repairing an unbootable partition
> etc.
> 
> Any opinions gratefully received.
> Thanks
> Nigel
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> 
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