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System Recovery with Knoppix

Posted by michael on from the useful-info dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Why don't you by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  2. The best tool :) by hunte · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm a very happy Knoppix user, IMHO is the final swiss knife!

    Here a small list of very powerful features:

    - NTFS (safe read only) support + all FS support
    - the linux fdisk
    - qtparted for working with partitions (like Partition Magic, but GPL)
    - partimage (like Norton Ghost, but GPL)
    - the cool LinNeighborhood (for easy windows/samba usage)
    - diagnose all hardware with the knoppix auto-detect kernel
    - all the best network diagnosis tools (nmap, nessus, tcpdump, ethereal, etc)
    - vim
    - kde
    - easy support of external usb2/firewire external drives
    - 1174 packages on a single autoboot CD

    (is present a DVD version too on ftp!!!!!)

    A nice link -> http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/knoppix/

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  3. Re:Why don't you by pulu · · Score: 5, Informative

    You might think about This CD for windows.... I used Knoppix all the time, but the lack of good NTFS support in linux constantly gets me down. This guy is XP/2003 based, and does pretty much the same thing. You can virus scan too, which windows loves.