[GTALUG] looking for a general purpose boot media to keep in case of distasters

[Aurelian Melinte]

On 19/09/2023 23:22, bitmap via talk wrote:
> I'd really like to have a good USB key to boot from when some kind of
> problem happens. Typically I use whatever installation media is lying
> around but they have really limited tools available. Not to mention
> tres obnoxious defaults like transparent terminals. Drive me nuts when
> some catastrophe is going on and the terminal is resetting to 50%
> opacity at every reboot.
>
> Is there some kind of general purpose image that has a variety of
> programs, maybe even foundational documentation on board, etc, that is
> designed for this? There are images like clonezilla to solve specific
> problems but that's another story. I would like a multi tool on hand.

I use  one usb https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html You can drop on it
multiple iso images to boot from. I use
https://www.system-rescue.org/Download/ iso + other iso images like
clonezilla and an live Ubuntu iso



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