If a Debian based system was okay, I'd suggest grml: http://grml.org/
I use the Debian netinst CD on my systems, There's also antiX and Tiny Core. Not familiar with Fedora based systems, but you could check the search page at Distrowatch to find lightweight Fedora based distros you could use as a starting point for a rescue CD. 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 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
