[TriLUG] Boot and troubleshooting dist to replace Knoppix?

Tom Barron tpb at dyncloud.net
Thu Aug 6 16:41:12 EDT 2009


Lately I've been using grml, from http://grml.org.

Reminds me of Knoppix but built from Debian repositories ....

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 04:03:26PM -0400, Brian Daniels wrote:
> I've used Knoppix many times as a quick boot-and-fix distro for repairing 
> systems.  With the new 6.x versions, Knoppix has removed some of the tools I 
> need (smartctl, for one) from the distro.  They apparently are no longer 
> developing the 5.x series.
> 
> What would you recommend as a replacement distro for rescue/repair/malware 
> removal purposes?
> 
> --Brian
> 
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