[ale] Linux rescue CD

[James Sumners]

http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Booting_the_CD-ROM#Hardware.2C_drivers_and_troubleshooting_options

Use the "lowmem" option on machines that have less than 400MB of
memory. You could also tell it not to load specific modules you might
not need.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 17:42 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
>> On 06/30/2010 08:37 AM, Larry Johnson wrote:
>> > I need a live CD to use for basically booting up a machine and doing
>> > hardware detection and diagnostics.  I can do that with pretty much any
>> > Linux live CD, but is there a distribution which is particularly well
>> > suited for this?
>>
>> I'm seconding James suggestion. I love, love, love SystemRescueCD. I
>> should probably donate some money to the project. It provides a great
>> selection of tools [0], a very flexible set of boot options [1], and
>> fantastic documentation [2].
>>
>> [0] http://sysresccd.org/System-tools
>> [1] http://sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Booting_the_CD-ROM
>> [2] http://sysresccd.org/Online-Manual-EN
>>
>
>
> This is good but it is giving me problems on older harder.  I'm trying
> to boot a system with only 128M of memory and the CD uses most of that.
> I'm also having problems on the VIA-RHINE II in the system with very
> high packet loss.  I've pulled it off the Cisco and put it on a generic
> switch and I still experience the same problem.  Not sure if it is
> related to the lack of memory or driver issues.   I can not boot Ubuntu
> because I do not have enough memory.  Any smaller rescue systems?   I do
> have the BBC but that last saw an update in 2003.
>
>
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