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

[Rob Stockley]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:15, Nigel Walters wrote:
> 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
> -- 
> Nigel Walters <nigel.walters at ihug.co.nz>
> 
I've used the rescue feature of the RedHat installation CD's a few
times. Use chroot to launch a shell with the correct root mapping then
repair away. It saved me when my glib was corrupted by a dodgey update. 

These days I just use knoppix. In fact I've a friend with a busted M$
installation coming around this evening. I'm planning to use knoppix to
scp all his data across to my machine where I'll burn it to CDs for him.
He hasn't seen Linux before and had given up on ever retrieving his
data.
-- 
Rob Stockley <mowgli at clear.net.nz>