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

[Chris Harris]

> 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.

I used Knoppix to recover data from several dead NT machines. Unfortunatly
my machine here steadfastly refuses to boot from a CD so I'm about to use
Tomsrtbt www.toms.net/rb to do a MBR transplant. If my next post comes from
oulookexpress, you know it went horribly wrong ;-)

Chris