--- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected] wrote:
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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.
Try out SystemRescueCD, based on Gentoo:
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
It's pretty lightweight (compared to Knoppix, etc), and includes everything you need. You can even mount NTFS partitions full R/W.
Wow, you aren't kidding, this really is the ultimate rescue LiveCD. I'm going to get a copy right now, as I <sigh> need to do another hard drive system backup.
I was briefly interested in the "Ultimate Boot CD", but while the UBCD has more tools, especially diagnostic tools, than the SystemRescueCD, UBCD seems geared more for heavy-duty rescues (general diagnostics, hard drive partitioning, and complete hard drive backups), as opposed to smaller scale rescues such as copying individual directories and/or files, and restoring system files from backup. UBCD also doesn't seem to have network filesystem options for hard drive backup.
These days, even SystemRescueCD comes with a GUI (for GParted and a lightweight web browser) but it's easy to disable if you don't want it, and it boots into the CLI by default.
As a bonus, you can boot a variety of floppy disk images from the CD as well (memtest86, freedos, many more).
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