[TriLUG] Boot and troubleshooting dist to replace Knoppix?

Warren Myers volcimaster at gmail.com
Sun Aug 9 08:29:58 EDT 2009


The Knoppix DVD has everything I regularly use - the CD has certainly been
trimmed, but is what you're looking for not on the DVD?
WMM

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>wrote:

> I've been using a Ubuntu 9.04 32 bit live distro for that lately. I like
> that
> it recognizes and can easily point and click mount partitions, and the
> hardware recognition is great. However, reading the responses, I see a lot
> of
> distros are made specifically for this job, so I might investigate them.
>
> SteveT
>
> On Thursday 06 August 2009 16:41:12 Tom Barron wrote:
> > Lately I've been using grml, from http://grml.org.
> >
> > Reminds me of Knoppix but built from Debian repositories ....
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 04:03:26PM -0400, Brian Daniels wrote:
> > > I've used Knoppix many times as a quick boot-and-fix distro for
> repairing
> > > systems.  With the new 6.x versions, Knoppix has removed some of the
> > > tools I need (smartctl, for one) from the distro.  They apparently are
> no
> > > longer developing the 5.x series.
> > >
> > > What would you recommend as a replacement distro for
> > > rescue/repair/malware removal purposes?
> > >
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