[aklug] Re: Standard CD for quick shell environment

Chris (do you mind if I shorten your name?)
there are several Linux distros you can use to do this, some will fix
on very small thumb drive (Damn Small Linux comes to mind) and there
are others that are more designed for recovery and forensics.
BackTrack3 is a good example of this kind of distro. The big dog on
the market used to be Knoppix but I don't believe it's been maintained
for a while.

Hope this helps.

Jim MacDonald
jim@macdonald.org

On Jan 5, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Christopher Howard wrote:

> Is there some kind of general purpose CD when you need to boot into a
> shell and edit files on Linux partition? I screwed up my sudoers
> file on
> one of my PCs, and I need to boot up as root and edit the file. I
> could do
> this with an Ubuntu live-CD I think, but I was curious what the real
> sys
> admins use when they need to do this sort of thing. (Plus I don't
> need a DE.)
>
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> Christopher Howard
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