Re: Boot-to-CLI distro?

2016-02-23 Thread Ted Roche
You might also look at Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html) which I've worked with before. A full live CD/DVD, it's also got a menu on startup that lets you pick CLI startup as well as various X, framebuffer, ACPI settings for twitchy machines. Includes a bunch of utilities like

Re: Boot-to-CLI distro?

2016-02-18 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Thanks for the suggestions, all. I tried to use the recommended SystemRescueCD, but the download was s-l-o-w... (for all I know, was my fault, but I didn't have 2+ hours to wait for it). Found this while googling for similar things: https://en.altlinux.org/Rescue [5] . Half the size, and

Re: Boot-to-CLI distro?

2016-02-17 Thread Shawn O'Shea
+1 for system rescue cd. As far as other handy utility distros. If I'm just resizing a partition, I'll do gparted live (Gui but goes straight to gparted partition editor) and if imaging (backup/restore) then Clonezilla Live. http://gparted.org/livecd.php http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php

Re: Boot-to-CLI distro?

2016-02-17 Thread Richard Kolb II
Ubuntu has the mini distro, but I think your only option with that is to install it. Richard Kolb II On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > On 2016-02-17 13:49, Brian Chabot wrote: > > In GRUB, boot to init 1, single user mode.' > > > > Which is great. If you

Re: Boot-to-CLI distro?

2016-02-17 Thread Kyle Smith
Check out SystemRescueCD[1], which I'm sure can be burned to a USB drive. Boots to a shell and comes with a ton of recovery tools and scripts to assist in getting a broken system operable. - Kyle [1]: https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:04 PM Ken

Re: Boot-to-CLI distro?

2016-02-17 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On 2016-02-17 13:49, Brian Chabot wrote: > In GRUB, boot to init 1, single user mode.' Which is great. If you catch it. And if it doesn't override you (as some live install disks I've seen, do). Hell -- I'd be happy with the "rw init=/bin/bash" bit for all I need, but even that, for example,

Re: Boot-to-CLI distro?

2016-02-17 Thread Brian Chabot
In GRUB, boot to init 1, single user mode. Brian Chabot On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hey, all. Many's the time I just want to go and fix something stupid -- > maybe wipe a disk, or edit a file -- and all I want is to be able to > stick in a USB stick