Is there a Debian Live CD I could use to do maintenance? I know there are
various Debian-based live cds, but I'd like one based in Sarge so I know the
version of all the tools, like fsck, mdadm, etc match those used by the
system itself.
Thank you.
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On 2/23/07, José Pablo Fernández <pablo.fernandez@rs.com.ar> wrote:
> Is there a Debian Live CD I could use to do maintenance? I know there are
> various Debian-based live cds, but I'd like one based in Sarge so I know the
> version of all the tools, like fsck, mdadm, etc match those used by the
> system itself.
> Thank you.
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> José Pablo Fernández
> pablo.fernandez@rs.com.ar

I'm not sure if there's a backport to Sarge, but under unstable
there's the following package, which provides a customized pure debian
live cd:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/live-package
http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/
http://wiki.debian.org/LiveCD

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On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 13:21 -0300, José Pablo Fernández wrote:
> Is there a Debian Live CD I could use to do maintenance? I know there are
> various Debian-based live cds, but I'd like one based in Sarge so I know the
> version of all the tools, like fsck, mdadm, etc match those used by the
> system itself.

Boot with nearly any LiveCD that has chroot support.

Mount the filesystems with root on a directory like "/sysimage" and then
do the rest from there.

Then chroot into the system image. Most if not all system maintenance
can be done right from the system itself. Of course there are some
issues you will need to understand but nothing preventing you from doing
what you need to do.
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On Friday 23 February 2007 16:36, Greg Folkert wrote:
> Then chroot into the system image. Most if not all system maintenance
> can be done right from the system itself. Of course there are some
> issues you will need to understand but nothing preventing you from doing
> what you need to do.

I need to do FS maintenance, mdadm and fsck, and I'd be booting with a CD only
to have root not even mounted as read only, so this is not really an option.
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José Pablo Fernández wrote:
> On Friday 23 February 2007 16:36, Greg Folkert wrote:
>> Then chroot into the system image. Most if not all system maintenance
>> can be done right from the system itself. Of course there are some
>> issues you will need to understand but nothing preventing you from doing
>> what you need to do.
>
> I need to do FS maintenance, mdadm and fsck, and I'd be booting with a CD only
> to have root not even mounted as read only, so this is not really an option.

You want to do maintenance, the best live distro (if you know how to use
text based tools) is grml. It saved my butt a few times.

Knoppix is also a good live CD for doing maintenance in graphical mode.

Joe

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José Pablo Fernández wrote:
> Is there a Debian Live CD I could use to do maintenance? I know there are

The Live CD howto supposedly has an explanation of how to make
a Live CD from any distro, especially Debian. I suppose you could
use Knoppix and do a respin, but put your own distro in there.

> various Debian-based live cds, but I'd like one based in Sarge so I know the
> version of all the tools, like fsck, mdadm, etc match those used by the
> system itself.
> Thank you.

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Am Freitag, 23. Februar 2007 21:33 schrieb José Pablo Fernández:
> I need to do FS maintenance, mdadm and fsck, and I'd be booting with a CD
> only to have root not even mounted as read only, so this is not really an
> option.
"Recovery Is Possible" handles mdadm plus lvm2 setups very good. Plus it's
very small and it's available with or without X:
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-r...looplinux/rip/
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> José Pablo Fernández wrote:
>> On Friday 23 February 2007 16:36, Greg Folkert wrote:
>>> Then chroot into the system image. Most if not all system maintenance
>>> can be done right from the system itself. Of course there are some
>>> issues you will need to understand but nothing preventing you from doing
>>> what you need to do.
>> I need to do FS maintenance, mdadm and fsck, and I'd be booting with a CD only
>> to have root not even mounted as read only, so this is not really an option.
>
> You want to do maintenance, the best live distro (if you know how to use
> text based tools) is grml. It saved my butt a few times.
>
> Knoppix is also a good live CD for doing maintenance in graphical mode.
>

Or like grml if you boot it 'knoppix 2'

Hugo


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>> José Pablo Fernández wrote:
>>> On Friday 23 February 2007 16:36, Greg Folkert wrote:
>>>> Then chroot into the system image. Most if not all system maintenance
>>>> can be done right from the system itself. Of course there are some
>>>> issues you will need to understand but nothing preventing you from
>>>> doing
>>>> what you need to do.
>>> I need to do FS maintenance, mdadm and fsck, and I'd be booting with
>>> a CD only to have root not even mounted as read only, so this is not
>>> really an option.
>>
>> You want to do maintenance, the best live distro (if you know how to use
>> text based tools) is grml. It saved my butt a few times.
>>
>> Knoppix is also a good live CD for doing maintenance in graphical mode.
>>
>
> Or like grml if you boot it 'knoppix 2'
>
> Hugo
>
>

Agreed. However, the benefit of grml is that the fonts are much better,
and it opens all the tty's and logs either root or user grml into them.
It also places the syslog on 12, so you can watch it live. Not to
mention it boots much faster.


There _is_ a live Debian CD, if someone wants the real thing, they can
get it at http://live.debian.net/

I have never tried it, so I can't make a comment on it.

Joe



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José Pablo Fernández wrote:
> Is there a Debian Live CD I could use to do maintenance? I know there are
> various Debian-based live cds, but I'd like one based in Sarge so I know the
> version of all the tools, like fsck, mdadm, etc match those used by the
> system itself.
>
>
Debian Live is the only live CD that uses only 100% Debian packages
straight from the repositories. You can download Sid and Etch ISOs. The
Etch weekly builds are available from
http://live.debian.net/weekly-builds/current/i386/

Consult

* http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/
* http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/

if you really want Sarge.


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