Re: [MLUG] linux based recovery disks

[Jack Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

It does not seem to matter to me which Linux live CD I use as long as it
will let me install things into the live CD environment that are
sometimes not originally included, such as smartmontools and ntfs-3g.
The exact distribution does not matter much as all distributions use or
can use almost the exact same software as any other distribution. There
are FreeBSD live CDs out there, but I have not ever used one. I don'w
know how different it would be to use a BSD live CD as a recovery CD as
the BSDs do have some differences with Linux but they still largely use
the same GNU program set.

I generally use Ubuntu live CDs as the live CDs are also the installer
CDs. I run Ubuntu on my laptop, so I always will have one around. I've
also used Knoppix as well as SUSE, Damn Small Linux, and Puppy. The last
two are rather minimal, especially Puppy, and I only use them on
machines with a small amount of RAM (128 MB or less) that won't allow a
more full-featured live CD to run.

--Jack


On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 02:00 -0600, Diana Hargus wrote:
> Per the subject line, does anyone here have any favorites?  I have been out 
> of the tinkering phase for so long, I did not know what one collection might 
> be best.  I had to do a recovery on a corrupted NTFS XP disk (kind of an 
> oxymoron, but hey!) and finally found one that allowed me to do what I 
> wanted to do, althoug with zsh instead of bash.  (Just how many shells are 
> there any more?)  Anyways, used the system rescue cd and it had what I 
> needed and worked well enough, but just seemed too basic.  Anyone have any 
> suggestions?  I tried several before this one worked.  Thanks,
> 
> Diana 
> 
> 


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