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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."
Overkill. If you have to use something like knoppix to fix your system then you're probably the cause of the break in the first place.
Why bother with using bloated tools that only get in the way when you can do the exact same thing with a boot floppy.
Sometimes I wonder if the whole world has forgotten the meaning of efficiency in computing.
RST
Knoppix might be useful for rescuing a system, but as an overal distro, it suffers from the problem that you can't install it to your hard drive. There are complex workarounds, but it defeats the purpose. I really hope the knoppix team add that functionality.
Meanwhile, MEPIS does exactly that. It's a live distro like knoppix, but once you've decided you like it and it's compatible with your hardware, you just install it on your HD like a regular distro. And it's also based on Debian. One downside, though, is lack of activity: the current released version is a year old.
yeah, but this is ibm. don't you know? they are the latest good guys for the sheepshaggers out here.
big fucking deal. norton for ms-dos has had this for a long time. nobody cares to mention _that_.
idiots. wait and watch. this will be made a troll.
fuck off.
what kinda lame name is kormoc anyway?
Just what I needed... someone drawing attention to the fact that they can access all my porn, I mean sensitive files, on my computer with just a knoppix disk but in all seriousness, how safe is it to be able to access anything just by putting a disk in the drive?
Heh, funny this story should come up now, I used Knoppix to recover customer web sites from a couple of disks from a compramised machine just the other day. Saved my life (coz if Knoppix wasn't there then I'd have to use a boot disk with vi on it, and I'd rather die, than use vi).
i am. and your girlfriend cheats on you.
fuck off.
what kinda lame site is wpngg anyway. not that its working.
fuck off.
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Yeah, but don't tell anyone here that. They might mod you troll/flaimbait for it ;)