Suggestions for a Linux LiveCD which is command-line only?

[Leo Mauler]

--- Charles Steinkuehler <charles at steinkuehler.net>
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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.

Wow, you aren't kidding, this really is the ultimate
rescue LiveCD.  I'm going to get a copy right now, as
I <sigh> need to do another hard drive system backup.

I was briefly interested in the "Ultimate Boot CD",
but while the UBCD has more tools, especially
diagnostic tools, than the SystemRescueCD, UBCD seems
geared more for heavy-duty rescues (general
diagnostics, hard drive partitioning, and complete
hard drive backups), as opposed to smaller scale
rescues such as copying individual directories and/or
files, and restoring system files from backup.  UBCD
also doesn't seem to have network filesystem options
for hard drive backup.

http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/
 
> 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).


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