[Gllug] Rescue disks

[Julian Somers]

On 14:12 Sat 22 Jul     , andrew-li at black1.org.uk wrote:
> I am using Knoppix 3.6 as a rescue disc for a failed machine and 
> have some questions
>  - is there a better dist/disk available. I find the knopix seems 
>    to load everything but the kitchen sink (eg apache, mysql)

I use Rescue Is Possible (RIP), which is nice and minimal.  It comes
with various bootloader options, including memtest86. And a painless
usb-stick install script. And it's easy to modify the rootfs if you want
to make changes. 

http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/

> 
>  - can any disk write to NTFS partitions

RIP has ntfsprogs v1.13.1

Julian

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