Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 03:09:26AM +, Paul Wise wrote: > Debian used to publish a "recovery" variant of Debian Live, but that > was dropped due to lack of maintenance at one point. I note there are > several Debian derivatives producing rescue/recovery live media (Grml, > rescatux, Finnix come

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Marc Haber (2020-06-09 17:08:25) > On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 03:09:26AM +, Paul Wise wrote: > > Debian used to publish a "recovery" variant of Debian Live, but that > > was dropped due to lack of maintenance at one point. I note there are > > several Debian derivatives producing rescue/re

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-09 Thread RP
On 6/9/20 8:08 AM, Marc Haber wrote: Why would we want to do that when downstream distributions for this purpose are available. Frankly, I don't currently see that a Debian rescue image could reach grml's level of matureness in time. We do have more important things to spend our personpower on t

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 10:24:53AM -0700, RP wrote: >On 6/9/20 8:08 AM, Marc Haber wrote: >> >> Why would we want to do that when downstream distributions for this >> purpose are available. Frankly, I don't currently see that a Debian >> rescue image could reach grml's level of matureness in time.

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-09 Thread RP
On 6/9/20 12:19 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: use the install disk as an all around rescue disk. You can - there's a "rescue mode" if you look in the boot menus... That's true, but I was looking for more tools than what busybox comes with.  Like an all purpose installer/rescue disk.  The suggestion