On Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 13:54 Thomas D Dial <td...@acm.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2019-10-22 at 22:02 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 21:30:25 -0400, > > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>] > > > [2 <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>] > > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 6:29 PM Default User < > > > hunguponcont...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Guys, it seems like SystemRescueCD could be on the way out. Over 6 > > > months since a release, and a quick glance at GitLab did not seem to > > > show any commits since then either (but I could be wrong). > > > > > > I have looked for a replacement utility distribution, but just > > > can't seem to find anything good. > > > > > > You don't like knoppix? Or a derivative of it? I won't claim they > > > are feature equivalent, but can be made so IB. > > > > > > If it is going to be abandonware, what then? Ideas? > > > > I need something with zfs capabilities, I don't think knoppix has > > that.] > > > I made one by installing buster on a USB key, then adding to that > buster-backports to that, generally following the instructions at > > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Debian-Buster-Root-on-ZFS > > stopping at the point where you would create zpools on the target. That > image is usable to do ZFS offline maintenance in case of problems as > well as to do additional installs, and can be kept up to date in the > usual Debian way. Given a large enough USB key, it should be > straightforward to install additional packages to make up a general > purpose recovery image, although I haven't done that as yet. > > Tom Dial > > >
Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet.
