LiveCDs, take 2
Casey Bredeson
cbredeson at trinitybiblecollege.edu
Wed Nov 10 21:45:43 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 11:19 -0500, Travis Newman wrote:
> OK there's obviously the Ubuntu live cd, then theres Knoppix, Gnoppix,
> Mepis, many others that I haven't looked at yet, but it seems that most
> are based on Debian. I have a couple questions.
>
> 1) I'm not using a live CD as a standard distribution. I don't really
> care about the web browsers, email clients, office apps, or anything. I
> just want a live CD for fixing things. Which one of these would you suggest?
> Preferably one with qtparted for partitioning, but that's not necessary.
>
I use the System Rescue CD found at http://www.sysresccd.org/ It
contains qtparted, memtest+, clamav, and a great deal of the standard
filesystem tools (xfsprogs, e2fsprogs, reiserfsprogs, etc. . .). I
regularly use it to backup the data from broken Windows machines and
then re-image them with partimage.
> 2) What exactly is the relationship between Gnoppix and Ubuntu? It says
> on their website that they have a joint effort going on now, and that
> the newest version is codenamed Warty and based on Ubuntu instead of
> Debian. But the contact information is Canonical. Are the Gnoppix and
> Ubuntu live cds essentially the same at this point?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Travis Newman
>
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Casey Bredeson <cbredeson at trinitybiblecollege.edu>
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