On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:45:53PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I'm looking for debian-based since I know how it works e.g. setting up > networking, raid and lvm stuff, etc. It'll only take 9 nights to get > Knoppix so I'll do that and perhaps later make a USB-based rescue set up > like I had for woody-floppy (with 4GB instead of 1.44 MB to play with). > If you want LVM, then Knoppix is out. The latest version, 5.0.1 IIRC, still does not include LVM support, which I believe is a huge shortcoming. The Ubuntu LiveCD does, though. I have used it once when my disks got hosed after a power outage. Worked great on amd64.
> I haven't done a detailed search of aptitude yet but for all I know > there's a package that makes live CDs from an installed system. > I'm fairly positive that one or more such tools exist. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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