Questions tagged [live-cd]

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

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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 ...
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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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Mounting a partition on the same drive as the live cd OS

I have looked all over the internet and I cannot find any insights into exactly what I am trying to do. I have a live cd of a flavor of debian that I am trying to install onto a hard drive for use as ...
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export a cdrom iso image with targetcli

In tgtd on fedora linux it is easy to export cdroms to iscsi. But i do not find any documentation how to do this with targetcli and LIO. The only examples I find are about creating file backends ...
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Fsck finds errors in OS, but not using LiveCD

Running fsck on a booted machine yields errors on the root file system. In an attempt to fix this, I booted from a LiveCD - but fsck on the LiveCD instance doesn't find any errors at all. I also tried ...
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Copy boot disk to backup drive using recovery mode or live cd

I am trying to make a backup of my 1TB boot drive without physically removing the drive or adding more drives. I have a 5TB drive installed that has enough space in one of its partitions to store a ...
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Headless installation of debian "golden image"

For the retrofit of some older embedded (Intel, x86) PCs I would like to install a customized Debian image with as little as possible user interaction. Normally I would create a Debian installation, ...
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How do I create a customized, live CenOS 7 ISO?

I need to create a bootable, live, desktop ISO. This will be a utility disk, a bootable ISO image created for the sole purpose of allowing the user to run a script which will resize an existing ...
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How can I migrate my network+printer configurations into new Windows?

One of my office Windows machine has been crashed( blue screen). I am browsing my file system (crashed pc's drive(c:)) from my Ubuntu Live CD. I am setting up new OS on my crashed pc. I am looking ...
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PXE - LiveCD suddenly not loading for many units, works for many others?

I'm at a loss as to what's going wrong for me here. I have a few dozen units that work, and a few dozen units that don't, and they all vary by hardware and platform. I have a CentOS 7.3 PXE server ...
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Extract list of installed drivers using a linux live disk

I have a quit old PC that was running Windows 2000 but the system crashed some days ago. Now I need to know which drivers have been installed on that specific pc but the system isn't booting anymore ...
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