LiveCD News

Lifehacker has a great set of instructions for using SystemRescueCD to create, move, and copy partitions on a normal PC.

This week’s DistroWatch Weekly compares two popular, lightweight LiveCDs aimed at partition management.

The top four of Lifehacker’s top 10 free computer system recovery tools are LiveCDs.

Blogcritics.org goes over repartition a hard drive with the GParted LiveCD.

“Okay, little Percival, let me tell you what partitioning was like in the old days. If you already had information on your hard drive, but wanted to re-partition it, all your data would be erased. There were programs available that would partition your drive without erasing all your stuff, but they cost money.”

The GParted project has released a LiveCD which allows Ghost-like efficient disk and partition imaging over a network.

UnlikePartimage or ntfsclone, which only for partitions. Clonezilla, containing some other programs, can save and restore not only partitions, but also a whole disk.
Unlike G4U or G4L, in Clonezilla, if file system is supported, only used blocks in harddisk are saved and restored. This increase the clone efficiency.

Desktop Linux reports that  a new version of SystemRescueCD is out and now included NTFS-3G 1.0 .

APC Magazine includes some information on WinPE and the GParted LiveCD in their instructions on dual booting Windows XP and Vista.

SmallBusinessComputing.com reviews Symantec’s Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition 6.5, which utilizes a Windows PE LiveCD to perform system restores of broken systems.

You probably don’t need to be told how important — make that critical — it is to regularly back up your company’s data. But it’s almost as important to have complete system backups as well, because desktop systems have become complicated beasts — containing updates and patches, user profiles, application preferences and myriad other customized settings. Restoring these can take hours or even days, during which time you have an unproductive employee.

Announced in the latest DistroWatch Weekly, the latest GParted LiveCD has added support for moving partitions.

DistroWatch Weekly has news on a couple new BSD LiveCDs, plus and update to grml.

Associated Content reviews the Ultimate Boot CD.

The State has a quick introduction to GParted.

Tom’s Hardware has a quality how-to article about using Knoppix on a USB flash drive for various tasks.

This article provides a gentle introduction to how a simple Knoppix configuration can become an indispensable item in a mobile technical toolkit.

Linux.com has some video tutorials on repartitioning a Windows machine. They utilize the excellent GParted LiveCD.

Tuxmachines.org is pointing to a forum post by a sysadmin who outfitted the desktops at his company with customized Kanotix LiveCDs. The link is currently a little messed up, so here is the post.

IT Week mentions the new GParted LiveCD in a short article.

NewsForge uses the great grml LiveCD to check their hardware.

A GNU/Linux live CD distribution can come handy for hardware diagnostics. For this purpose, my favorite live CD distribution is GRML, which bundles the tools we’re about to discuss, along with some other useful programs for both home users and veteran system administrators.

DistroWatch Weekly has a thorough review of the BSD based LiveCD named Frenzy.

ReviewLinux.Com reviews GParted LiveCD 0.2.5-1. Lots of screenshots to go with the review.

OSDir.com has screenshots of the Partition Magic replacement GParted LiveCD.