RE: [MLUG] linux based recovery disks

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

Note to self: keep an eye on which window is where.   Anyways, thanks
for the inf

Diana

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMAIL:PROTECTED [mailto:members-
> EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hargus, Diana
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:15 AM
> To: MLUG Members
> Subject: RE: [MLUG] linux based recovery disks
> 
> 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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