RE: [MLUG] linux based recovery disks

["Hargus, Diana" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Thanks for the info, I heard what you said about ntfs-3g.  That helped a
lot. The only bad thing about this particular rescue cd was the zsh
shell, never even heard of it before now and had to learn a new command
or three.  With all the shell out there, you would think that someone
would finally get a command like "mcopy -s /mnt/windows/media/*.mp3
/mnt/extdrive/media" and make it recursive both ways.  We had that
discussion a while back, maybe someone programmer could figure out a
better cp command (or just say to heck with it and just use tar).  A
nice set of recursive tools would be nice (rmdir -r "dir2del" or )

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMAIL:PROTECTED [mailto:members-
> EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Smith
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:05 AM
> To: MLUG Members
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] linux based recovery disks
> 
> 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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