Check out the Helix LiveCD, which is actually designed to do forensics. Moving data around and having functional drivers is one of Helix's strong areas. It's Knoppix based, and the GRUB boot screen has a CONSOLE mode that is easily selected. Just a fair warning, since Helix is a forensics tool, by default it wont modify ANYTHING in the permanent storage of the system it is booted on. This can be advantageous if you are trying to recover data off of a crashed/hacked system, but it can also be annoying if you aren't aware of what is going on and why. ~Bradley
Leo Mauler wrote:
I had a motherboard die on me recently. I had a spare machine with no OS and a spare hard drive, so I booted up KNOPPIX on the spare machine and set up the system to copy files off the dead computer's hard drives onto the backup hard drive.
After about 24 hours only 15GB had copied between the two hard drives, with 30GB to go. I assume that KNOPPIX's heavy memory use was slowing down the file transfer, and I think I need a CLI-only LiveCD.
The most commonly used tools I need for such a LiveCD are network capability (including DHCP client), Samba support for mounting Samba shares on other machines, and "mc" to make copying functions easier, such as for Windows filenames with lots of spaces. If anyone knows of such a LiveCD, please let me know.
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