You could also use BackTrack (2 or 3b) it boots by default to cli mode.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 26, 2008 1:36 PM, Charles Steinkuehler <<a href="mailto:charles@steinkuehler.net">charles@steinkuehler.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>Leo Mauler wrote:<br>| I had a motherboard die on me recently. I had a spare<br>| machine with no OS and a spare hard drive, so I booted<br>| up KNOPPIX on the spare machine and set up the system<br>
| to copy files off the dead computer's hard drives onto<br>| the backup hard drive.<br>|<br>| After about 24 hours only 15GB had copied between the<br>| two hard drives, with 30GB to go. I assume that<br>| KNOPPIX's heavy memory use was slowing down the file<br>
| transfer, and I think I need a CLI-only LiveCD.<br>|<br>| The most commonly used tools I need for such a LiveCD<br>| are network capability (including DHCP client), Samba<br>| support for mounting Samba shares on other machines,<br>
| and "mc" to make copying functions easier, such as for<br>| Windows filenames with lots of spaces. If anyone<br>| knows of such a LiveCD, please let me know.<br><br></div>Try out SystemRescueCD, based on Gentoo:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page</a><br><br>It's pretty lightweight (compared to Knoppix, etc), and includes<br>everything you need. You can even mount NTFS partitions full R/W.<br>
<br>These days, even SystemRescueCD comes with a GUI (for GParted and a<br>lightweight web browser) but it's easy to disable if you don't want it,<br>and it boots into the CLI by default.<br><br>As a bonus, you can boot a variety of floppy disk images from the CD as<br>
well (memtest86, freedos, many more).<br><br>- --<br>Charles Steinkuehler<br><a href="mailto:charles@steinkuehler.net">charles@steinkuehler.net</a><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32)<br>Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/" target="_blank">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a><br>
<br>iD8DBQFHm4uxLywbqEHdNFwRAu+nAJ9TsJ4XiGfiY+hYnOWaHFPloReBkQCfWjTP<br>+BwfFGNSbjBjE2ZNUYJMKE4=<br>=T7A+<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>
<div>
<div></div>
<div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br>Kclug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Kclug@kclug.org">Kclug@kclug.org</a><br><a href="http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug" target="_blank">http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>