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 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

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-10 Thread RP
On 6/10/20 4:52 AM, Michael Kesper wrote: It would be nice if such a thing would be available as an official Debian live cd rescue image. No debian-live currently includes tools like lvm, for example. So you depend on a working network setup for rescueing encrypted partitions etc. Just my 2

Re: Debian utility live distribution (was Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux)

2020-06-11 Thread RP
On 6/11/20 8:30 PM, Ryan Finnie wrote: As the developer of Finnix, I'm open to a few ideas and this will be a bit of a ramble going off in a few directions. But first, a bit of an introduction. Finnix is a utility Live CD, in production since 2000[0]. I recently released Finnix 120[1] after a