For legacy systems that are CD only, I use RIP (Recovery Is Possible) for some tasks. It is Slackware based and has quiet a few NTFS utilities. The later versions even have a Xorg server that runs a Fluxbox WM. For building small systems, have a look at Alpine Linux. It is Gentoo based and has a small foot print; tho, adding the sysrescue utilities would be a bit of a challenge. I have built older LFS systems and liked how much control one has over the result - sort of AKA Gentoo. -- Greg
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Philip Rhoades <[email protected]> wrote: > People, > > I had cause to need to find a recent RescueCD to work on old hardware with > no USBs - I have usually used a Fedora LiveCD on a USB stick but it wasn't > possible in this case - and I couldn't use a CD because the Fedora LiveCDs > don't fit on standard CD disks anymore. I ended up using an old 20GB HD > and used virt-manager to install from a running laptop to the physical HD - > then I could just plug that HD into one of the old IDE cables in the > computers and get the hardware going that way. However it was annoying - I > would like a Fedora Rescue CD that will do everything that SystemRescueCd > does: > > http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/Download > > which is based on Gentoo and is only 480MB - when I build a base Fedora > iso from the Kickstarter file it is over 800MB ! > > I wondered if it was actually possible to produce a Fedora rescue CD like > SystemRescueCd - and so I started looking and found LFS. Now I am > wondering if I could "kill two birds with one stone" ie learn more about > how Linux is installed onto a HD and then gradually develop that OS to the > stage where I can continue to use DNF in the usual way? > > Thanks, > > Phil. > -- > Philip Rhoades > > PO Box 896 > Cowra NSW 2794 > Australia > E-mail: [email protected] > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-chat > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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