Yes; I ended up with the Debian Installer. I think I've found the right place now. Of course, there's Knoppix, but the smaller image is a bit dated.
Thanks everyone for your help. Ross On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 20 November 2015 23:23:56 Bob Holtzman wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:10:38PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: >> > So the operations are simply setting up an environment for doing the >> > rescue, not overwriting the existing system? I'm happy to change my >> > expectation if that's the case. Maybe by the end of it there is a more >> > complete system, e.g., with bash. >> > >> > In the meantime I've downloaded the first CD of the Debian live CD's. >> > Ross >> >> Wanna bet? > > I think perhaps we should be less subtle (than this and my ??). Ross, there > is only one Live CD. Well, for different architectures there is more than > one - but it sounds as though you have downloaded the wrong CD. > > Lisi >