pkgs for a rescue cd

Gerk · Retired Dev Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 435

Hello everyone

Just in the process of gathering together a pkg list for consideration in making the new 1.4 ISO/rescue CD (they will be the same thing). It will be running a live filesystem (styled after the live iso in x86) and we will be able to include many more pkgs than previously (as it does not have to live in your ram anymore).

I would still like to keep it fairly small, but am looking for any suggestions of what you people think are essential for system recovery/rescue usages.

The obvious stuff can be left out (all the major partitioning and formatting/filesystem repair tools will be included).. we're more looking at small pkgs tha may not be obvious to include.

If you can please:
1) read what is already posted in the this thread to avoid duplications
2) post the category and package name (and preferably revision/build you are using)
3) a brief description (if it's not obvious) of the pkg and what it needs to be used for

I would like to wrap up this list by end of weekend if possible and get started on building the CD.

Thanks everyone, and happy Gentoo'ing

:wink:

bahkyp · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 1:41 am Post subject:

Going from the 1.2 disk.

Lynx

Because:
1 its small, terminal based www browser (you could set it to go to the documents page) Reading why things broke is always useful (if you can find why)
2 is needed by me because we have a perl based firewall that needs to be logged onto rather than a proxy.(it requires machineIP, usr, passwd)

PS you can ignore 2 as a reason. I get around this by using another computer on the network to logon my machine to the firewall.
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BlueShift · Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 1:29 pm Post subject:

partition image (partimage; www.partimage.org) would be nice to have. Unfortunately there seems to be no ebuild for it so it's probably too much to ask.
It's a tool to make/restore an image of a partition. unlike 'dd' it only copies used space of the partition so the images can be quite small.
it's been available for ppc only recently (and I must say I haven't used it on ppc) I only discovered it this weekend and it already saved my ... on x86 yesterday so I think it's definately worth having.
I would like it on the Gentoo CD because that CD is alreday quite versatile and it would allow me to mount an NFS drive and copy the image straight over the network.
Sorry I 'm so late, I only saw your post today.

Greetings,

itoito · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 32

1. a compiled kernel module for the airport card so you can enable it.
2. the wireless tools.
in case you only have wireless access to the network, this will help.

3. nmap
you might want to give the network a quick scan: "what was the ip of the fileserver again? nmap 192.168.0.1-255 " and you've got your answer, or you might just want to take a rescue-cd with you "incase there's one of those weird networking problems" with that windows/macos-only network at your uncle's company and they ask you to find out what the problem is.

ernstp · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 11:46 am Post subject:

NcFTP

and

links

.....

and Angband with only NCurses support for all the slow compiles? :-)

(really small, no deps except NCurses)