I’ve been using gparted live for the most part to repair all sorts of stuff, but I’m wondering if anyone else has any other more modern recommendations, preferably even ones with Wifi or more graphics card support!
I also find installing deb packages to be way slower than they should be on a modern system (what are deb packages doing that alpine apk and arch packages don’t??)
Bonus if they boot fast, too.
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It’s a community-run successor to the classic Hiren’s Boot CD. It’s a live disc running Windows Embedded with a lot of customisation and loads of disk management, recovery and diagnostic tools included.
My trusty Arch ISO has never failed me, and it’s fairly easy to make one with a whole GUI if needed. But it’s not really turnkey.
Other than that, Ubuntu is still a pretty nice distro to have if only for the fairly functional GUI and drivers out of the box. Works great for fixing stuff and browsing the web for answers.
Nice thing is with Ventoy you can have a whole bunch of them for all different needs!
I’ll second ventroy. It actually just works.
I have a 256GB usb stick loaded with various install isos. It’s great being able to just copy over the iso instead of having to image them every time I need one.How does that work exactly? Do you partition the USB drive and make Ventoy bootable in one partition and then put the isos on the other partition or something?
It’s been a while since I set mine up but iirc yes. Either that or ventoy creates a partition itself during install specifically that it searches to populate the list when you boot it. The nice thing beyond that is it even let’s you explore other disks on the system so if you have other isos on an unencrypted drive installed in the computer you can also browse to that and boot from it.
This is one of those things I didn’t know I needed. I have so many usb sticks lying around with various troubleshooting isos. This is a game changer.
Thank you for the sharing Ventoy! I’m excited to check it out!
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Based on the title, I misunderstood as “oh shit I messed up real bad while booted into this ISO”. (I have that one too.)
Until recently I have been switching between Ubuntu ISO and custom Arch ISO. Now I have a regular Arch install on a fast USB drive for repairs (not ISO).
Grub rescue disk is nice for when you fuck up your boot loader. Can detect many installed OSes and allow you to get back into them and fix things with less fussing around https://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/
As an All-In-One, I use Parted Magic
It costs money, but I use it for work, so the money is totally worth it, just for the GUI environment.
But, for most things, all I ever need is gparted, smartctl / smartmon and maybe grub - I believe all that’s on Arch ISO
Oh, and CloneZilla…
Yeah, I ended up just tossing another $15 at Parted Magic. It really just has all the tools you want on in one place. Great for recovery or destruction.
