Analysts View: Antivirus Rescue CDs
I examine nine AV rescue CDs designed to remove particularly nasty malware to determine which is the best disc, and if the free ones are good enough.
via PCMag.com
Daily 5: Five uses for an Ubuntu LiveCD
OMG! Ubuntu! has an article covering additional uses for the Ubuntu LiveCD besides installation.
MultiBootISOs Boots Multiple Operating Systems from a USB Drive
Can't decide whether you should commit your spare thumb drive to Windows recovery, Ubuntu, or some other live-booting OS? Run MultiBootISOs on your USB drive, and you won't have to choose—you'll just choose between them at start-up.
via Lifehacker
Manage partitions and disks with GParted-Clonezilla live CD
Linux.com has instructions for backing up partitions using GParted-Clonezilla.
Backing up partitions and hard disks sounds like work -- until youve tried Clonezilla. With Clonezilla you can clone and duplicate partitions of various formats and disks of various sizes locally or over the network. Even more impressive is the fact that you can do all this without typing complicated commands. And since Clonezilla is available as part of the GParted-Clonezilla live CD, you dont even have to install it.
CentOS 5 i386 Live CD
The CentOS 5 LiveCD has been released.
That means that the purposes of this CD are to see if CentOS will boot/work on your hardware, to test some of the features of CentOS as a workstation, and to use as a Rescue CD. It does not contain all the features of the 7 CD CentOS 5 Distribution on one CD :
Recover Data From RAID 1 LVM Partitions With Knoppix Linux LiveCD
HowtoForge walks through recovering data from a RAID 1 setup using Knoppix.
LH Top 10: Free Computer System Recovery Tools
The top four of Lifehacker's top 10 free computer system recovery tools are LiveCDs.
Why linux live cd are important? How useful is it?
Linux by Examples uses the SLAX LiveCD to perform some data recovery and repair on a couple broken Windows machines.
Two New Mandriva Live Discs, and much more news
DistroWatch Weekly is packed full of LiveCD news today. First up is news of a gaming LiveDVD by Mandriva, along with a LiveCD showcasing a unique 3D desktop called Metisse. Below that is news of updates to Live versions of PCLinuxOS, gNewSense, Fedora Unity, BOSS GNU/Linux, and a new rescue LiveCD by the T2 project.
Tip of the Trade: Recovery Is Possible
ServerWatch brings us an introduction to the recovery LiveCD/DVD/USB/CF/PXE/* which goes by Recovery Is Possible or RIPLinuX.
Recovery is Possible (RIP) sounds like a 12-step program, or some kind of self-help regime. RIP is (yet another) specialized Linux rescue distribution. RIP comes in a number of bootable images: CD/DVD, USB key, Compact Flash, PXE netboot, and even a tiny FreeBSD-based image. You can get a version with X windows, or one without.
Tip of the Trade: TestDisk and PhotoRec
Server Watch suggests running a couple of popular data recover tools from a LiveCD or LiveUSB device to rescue data.
My personal favorite way to run TestDisk or PhotoRec is from a bootable Linux CD. They are included on Knoppix, Trinity Rescue Kit and RIPLinux. Virtually all filesystems and partition types are supported as well.
Geek to Live: Rescue files with a boot CD
Lifehacker walks us through rescuing a Windows system using Knoppix.
Few moments in computing are as heartbreaking as when you turn on your trusty PC only to receive that bone-chilling message: "Boot sector corrupt. Config.sys missing. Disk cannot be read."
Drive failure? Yagotta try Knoppix first
A ZDNet.com blog has a long but entertaining story of Windows file recovery using Knoppix.
Gentoo-based system rescue liveCD revs up
DesktopLinux.com is reporting the updates in the latest SystemRescueCd release.
MultiLinux Live DVD
DistroWatch Weekly reports on one of the first (the first?) release of a premade LiveDVD which includes multiple Linux LiveCDs. Included on the 4+ GB ISO download is Knoppix, Ubuntu Dapper, Livux, PCLinuxOS, SimplyMEPIS, SystemRescueCD, Puppy Linux, Elive, and Damn Small Linux.
Recovering grub boot loader password
nixCraft tells us how to recover a grub boot loader password using Knoppix.