[nzlug] mdadm and lvm on a live distro?

[Craig Mckenna]

I've found the INSERT rescue CD good for this type of recovery

http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html

only a 60Mb download, but has all the required tools


On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 01:34 +1300, Nevyn wrote:
> Does anyone know of any live distro that has these two tools?
> 
> I've recently had a hard drive failure and unfortunately none of my
> ide hard drives seem to be up to scratch (I've had 2 die recently and
> only had 1 spare lying around). However the 2 resources I do seem to
> have is loads of cd-rom drives and some blank cd's so was hoping I
> might be able to run my file server off a live distro (something
> minimal with no desktop would be preferred).
> 
> Of course it had to be a system drive as opposed to anything that was
> on the raid (whoops). This is fine as there was no really important
> stuff on the system drive except maybe the system (that's not all that
> important right?)
> 
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