System Recovery with Knoppix

An anonymous reader writes "This article shows how to access a non-booting Linux system with a Knoppix CD, get read-write permissions on configuration files, create and manage partitions and filesystems, and copy files to various storage media and over the network. You can use Knoppix for hardware and system configuration detection and for creating and managing partitions and filesystems. You can do it all from Knoppix's excellent graphical utilities, or from the command line."

Why no SuSE?

[BrookHarty]

SuSE also has a live CD, which is pretty good (IMHO) the KDE desktop is a little more polished than Knoppix. Cant say I used either as a full time desktop thou, so not sure how they rank. And couldnt get the Gentoo live game CD's to work with my ATI 9700 pro.

Also, IBM owns 20% of SuSE, thought they should push it.

Re:Why don't you

[stefanlasiewski]

Why don't you use Windows Emergency Repair disks, you GNU hippies?

Because I'm lazy. Why use 4 floppies, which only contain a small number of utilities, when I can just use a single CD-ROM with zillions of powerful utilities, network access, etc.

Also, with 4 floppies, I've always found that one of the four disks will be corrupted when I try to use it.

With Win98, I kept 2-3 emergency disks lying around just in case one disk was corrupt. The same strategy for Win2K would require 8 or 12 disks disks.

Re:Knoppix is great

[Brandybuck]

They can see that you have no viruses just by walking past your desk? Wow! How bad of a virus problem do you have at your place!