[ale] custom LIve CD

[Jeff Hubbs]

  Systemrescuecd has many such tools; it's adapted from the Gentoo 
liveCD.  I prefer it to the Gentoo liveCD because it has all those tools 
as well and supports more hardware and ext4 right out of the gate.

On 8/10/10 1:52 PM, jrtroberts wrote:
> I have recently started working very part time as a PC Repair Tech at US
> Gaming Arena in Roswell.  While I was there I saw that they were using a
> hodge podge of tools for working on PCs.  My first day I had to fix a
> computer with a bad hard drive.  All their cd based tools were not
> working, so I used an Ubuntu live cd and with some work fixed the
> problem.  I used a tool called ddrescue to do a bit copy of the damaged
> drive on to a new one and went from there.
>
> While I was doing this work I thought it would be a great idea to build
> a custom live CD for PC repair.  There may already be one available;
> however, I would like to learn how to build on myself.  I was thinking
> that running one the boxes as the desktop environment and using a super
> like weight distro like Puppy linux or something would work.
>
> Long story short,  would anyone be able to help me put this together?
> I would like help learning about different PC diagnostic tools and PC
> repair tools for Linux.  Most of the computers that are coming in are
> Windows based, presumably because most PC and Laptop users who utilize
> linux already know how to fix a computer.  So the LIve CD would be very
> windows centric in nature if possible, but otherwise focused on General
> PC repair.  I also did not know if Linux would be a good tool from
> troubleshooting MAC issues.
>
> Thanks everyone,
>
> Joshua.
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