System Recovery with Knoppix

An anonymous reader writes "This article shows how to access a non-booting Linux system with a Knoppix CD, get read-write permissions on configuration files, create and manage partitions and filesystems, and copy files to various storage media and over the network. You can use Knoppix for hardware and system configuration detection and for creating and managing partitions and filesystems. You can do it all from Knoppix's excellent graphical utilities, or from the command line."

Comments

Re:Why don't you

[stefanlasiewski]

Why don't you use Windows Emergency Repair disks, you GNU hippies?

Because I'm lazy. Why use 4 floppies, which only contain a small number of utilities, when I can just use a single CD-ROM with zillions of powerful utilities, network access, etc.

Also, with 4 floppies, I've always found that one of the four disks will be corrupted when I try to use it.

With Win98, I kept 2-3 emergency disks lying around just in case one disk was corrupt. The same strategy for Win2K would require 8 or 12 disks disks.