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

[Steve]

Damn Small Linux is a cut down knoppix distro (with a few other thing
thrown in) and can be carried round on a business card sized CD rom, and
is said to work well on older machines. Pretty cool I thought and weighs
in at just under 50 mb.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

----- Original message -----
From: "Tony Booth" <Tony.Booth at treasury.govt.nz>
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:19:02 +1200
Subject: RE: [wellylug] Recommendations for the best Linux rescue disk -
please

Were you aware that you could get a boot floppy for Knoppix?  The tools
to make it are on the CD.

Cheers
Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Harris [mailto:chris.harris at actrix.gen.nz] 
Sent: Thursday, 18 September 2003 10:30 p.m.
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: RE: [wellylug] Recommendations for the best Linux rescue disk -
please


> 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


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