LiveCDs, take 2

[Robert Parker]

On Thursday 11 November 2004 03:19, 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.

You might look at Knoppix-std (security tools distribution). A cut down 
version of Knoppix carrying only security and repair tools.

Another one to try is 'repair-is-possible'. A lot of good tools including 
ntfsresize. Unfortunately repair is only possible with this if you have 
enough memory. It bombs on <= 96 meg, definitely works on 512meg, and I 
suspect will likely fit in 128 meg but I haven't used it at that size.

Avoid recent versions of qparted like the plague, though I'm sorry I can't 
tell you actual version numbers. Cfdisk is reasonably intuitive and it just 
works.

Bob