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A build of an operating system that can run directly from a CD/DVD disk or image.

A build of an operating system that can run directly from a CD/DVD disk or image. Live CDs are often used to demo the software, to provide a full recovery environment, or to present a richer installation experience.

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Favorite system recovery Live CD?

What's your system recovery CD? I've used Ultimate Boot CD and GParted. What works for you?
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LiveCD with running ssh server

I am looking for a LiveCD with a running ssh daemon. I need it because i want to connect to an abandoned server and make a backup. The server hasn't a monitor. Suggestions?
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PXE boot FreeBSD iso from pxelinux server

I'm using FOG as a TFTP / PXE server and would like to be able to boot a FreeBSD LiveCD (specifically pfSense, but it could be any LiveCD, really); I've found HOWTOs for booting a "netboot" BSD but they all seem to use a BSD server. So: Is it…
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How to customize a Windows boot CD

What is the easiest way to make a Windows boot CD that can be customized? Specifically I would like to run DriveSnapshot from a boot CD so that I can restore images from a USB drive. I tried UBCD a while ago but was never able to get it to work due…
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Setting up LiveCD + USB drive boot combination for a headless server

I'm setting up a large software RAID array using MDADM, and don't want to waste a drive bay on a system disk. Unfortunately, the server I'm working with has trouble booting from a USB drive, so I'm attempting a workaround. I want to create a LiveCD…
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How do I mount an .iso with another (live CD) .iso?

I want to: Place the .iso of a live CD in a directory. Use qemu (kvm or kqemu) to run the .iso Put a 2nd live CD .iso in the same directory. Have the 1st live CD mount the 2nd .iso. Say, I have 2 .iso files in the same directory, how can I emulate…
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How to rebuild Raid arrays after booting to a live cd?

Problem: Botched kernel upgrade left me with an unbootable system (don't ask me how it also made my backup kernel unbootable) where boot and root are on mdadm raid 1 arrays (with metadata 1.0/1.2 respectively). Booting by live CD doesn't detect my…
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How to boot Linux from a 16gb USB flash drive

I'm trying to install Linux on a single partition of a USB flash drive that's larger than 4gb. The first place I went to is http://pendrivelinux.com. I can follow these instructions for installing Xubuntu 9.04 perfectly, which unfortunately break…
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Installing FreeBSD remotely using Ubuntu LiveCD

I realised this is a very specific question, but I am wondering if there is a way to install FreeBSD on a machine using only SSH access to a Ubuntu LiveCD on the server?
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Linux LiveCD with Xen DomU support?

Can someone recommend a Linux LiveCD which can start as Xen DomU (paravirtualized, no HVM)?
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Install package via apt from a live cd to the real system

I can only boot via live CD and I need to install the Debian package firmware-linux-nonfree to my server for it to be able to successfully boot. How can I do this? Would chroot help me ?
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Run gparted from ubuntu 14.04 live

I can not find a way to start gparted from ubuntu 14.04 Live CD. There is an icon on desktop for "Ubuntu Software Center", if I open it - it states that gparted is installed, but there is no icon to launch gparted on desktop. Also there is no menu…
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Assembling Software RAID in Live CD for data recovery

I need help recovering some data that's on my RAID which is on a LVM on my server running Ubuntu. What happened was I deleted the logical volume that controlled my swap space which was on a partition on drives sda2, sdb2, sdc2, and sdd2 in RAID1.…
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boot a linux live cd in VmWare

On a windows host system, I have VmWare workstation installed and I need to boot a linux guest LiveCD in VmWare. How do I do this? Can you please post instrutions for both physical cd drive and iso disk image?
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OpenSolaris livecd, NForce NIC driver, and NTFS USB mounting

I'm attempting to install OpenSolaris 2009.06 on my server. Before I do I would like to test that everything works and am running in to problems. It has an Abit AN-M2 motherboard with an NForce chipset. The driver config utility says that I need a…
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