The Debian live CD isn't much as a rescue CD; it lacks parted and lvm, for example. At least the text only image I used did. Of course, you can install those packages after startup.
I wasn't logged in, and it took some searching to find out the right id. For the record it's user, with password live. Use sudo to get to root. The system is running the ssh server, but it's not configured to accept passwords. Ross On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Ross Boylan <rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org> wrote: > 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 >>
