On Tue, November 24, 2015 10:54 pm, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/24/2015 01:26 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > >> I am attempting to recover data from a virus-damaged Windows machine. >> For >> this work, I wish to run debianlive with xfce desktop and clamav. > > I have found that I am able to install Debian Wheezy onto a USB flash > drive that boots and seems to work on desktops and laptops made since > ~2005. This allows me to install whatever software I want. Have you > tried this approach?
I do not understand why the regression to Wheezy; the debianlive ISO copied to a USB flash stick gave me Jessie with xfce and synaptic, and with the flash stick I booted the Windows machine; NetworkManager performed beautifully. Then, using synaptic, I installed clamav and another utility or two (including Midnight Commander) which enabled me to inspect the machine. The only problem I encountered was an error message when I executed rsync on a Debian desktop in order to copy the drive of the Windows machine; there was something which ssh did not like, and with Google I discovered that others, too, have experienced the difficulty. But it turned out that by executing rsync on the Windows machine running debianlive, I was able to copy the drive. But it would be nice to have a customized debianlive ISO which includes clamav and mc and a few other packages. Russ