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Leo Mauler wrote: | I had a motherboard die on me recently. I had a spare | machine with no OS and a spare hard drive, so I booted | up KNOPPIX on the spare machine and set up the system | to copy files off the dead computer's hard drives onto | the backup hard drive. | | After about 24 hours only 15GB had copied between the | two hard drives, with 30GB to go. I assume that | KNOPPIX's heavy memory use was slowing down the file | transfer, and I think I need a CLI-only LiveCD. | | The most commonly used tools I need for such a LiveCD | are network capability (including DHCP client), Samba | support for mounting Samba shares on other machines, | and "mc" to make copying functions easier, such as for | Windows filenames with lots of spaces. If anyone | knows of such a LiveCD, please let me know.
Try out SystemRescueCD, based on Gentoo:
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
It's pretty lightweight (compared to Knoppix, etc), and includes everything you need. You can even mount NTFS partitions full R/W.
These days, even SystemRescueCD comes with a GUI (for GParted and a lightweight web browser) but it's easy to disable if you don't want it, and it boots into the CLI by default.
As a bonus, you can boot a variety of floppy disk images from the CD as well (memtest86, freedos, many more).
- -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected]