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

[Lee Brandt]

You could also use BackTrack (2 or 3b) it boots by default to cli mode.

On Jan 26, 2008 1:36 PM, Charles Steinkuehler <charles at steinkuehler.net>
wrote:

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