[aklug] Re: Standard CD for quick shell environment

Quoting Jim MacDonald <jim@macdonald.org>:

> 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.
>
Knoppix had a new release last year, 08, so it is still being
maintained. I used to use the SystemRescueCD,
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page. Does hosing up the sudoers file
not allow you to boot into single user mode?

Jon

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Received on Mon Jan 5 16:41:06 2009