From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 14:46:55 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08815106564A for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:46:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from ifdnrg29.ifdnrg.com (outbound.ifdnrg.com [193.200.98.138]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40CD8FC0A for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:46:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.85] (93-97-172-73.zone5.bethere.co.uk [93.97.172.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by ifdnrg29.ifdnrg.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0KEkqG4024981 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:46:53 GMT (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Message-ID: <4D384AD5.20404@ifdnrg.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:46:45 +0000 From: Paul Macdonald User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4D383E51.9060800@ifdnrg.com> In-Reply-To: <4D383E51.9060800@ifdnrg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: rescue cd with networkign and ssh! [SORTED] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:46:55 -0000 On 20/01/2011 13:53, Paul Macdonald wrote: > > Hi, > > can any recommend a live cd (any distro) that will mount ufs and has > networking+sshd. > > I've tried pc bsie (2.1, 2.0, 1.1) which doesn't even seem to work on > a test machine here , won;t mount the /dev/cd image ( folder is 0 > bytes in iso) . > > Ubuntu live will boot the box and sshd can be installed but it won;t > mount the disks (apparently it needs a custom kernel). > > the live cd image needs to work in a datacenter. > > thanks > Paul. > > For info the PCSBIE disk *will* do all this, just none of them booted properly in the test machine, seems fine on a test server and looks perfect for rescue needs. -- ------------------------- Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting ------------------------- t: 0131 5548070 m: 07534206249 e: paul@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com ------------------------- IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA -------------------------