[nzlug] mdadm and lvm on a live distro?

[Nevyn]

I discovered slax - damn what a great idea! Been able to get most of
my system up and running on a cd (in commandline mode too so none of
the un-necessary overheads of X). Leads to another question though so
I'll post that in a new thread...

On 3/5/07, Craig Mckenna <craig at mindz-i.co.nz> wrote:
> 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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