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minimum requirements

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 07:58.

You're taking requests? Ohhhh, me next, me next! =p
I'd really like to see a 'basic' system liveCD that can be used to service the abundant legacy PIII systems with around 128mb of RAM. If you need to rescue a system/files at work, MOST of our systems with dying hard drives are not always the latest greatest Duo Core with a gig of RAM.
I get a little tired of all these live CDs that have massive requirements just to boot. Can you make one that's light on system requirements Pretty Please?
Other ideas off the top:
dd is the good old basic for imaging drives.. but dcfldd and sdd are better...
Foremost is great but maybe also include fatback. I still encounter fat32 partitions where data recovery is needed.
AIR "automated image and restore" is another request... it's a nice GUI frontend for dd/sdd/dcfld
http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_dd_images_with_air
I see parted is listed but shouldn't it have qtparted or gparted?
I'm pleased to see the AIFF lib for compressing disk images included!
Perhaps magicrescue should be included? http://jbj.rapanden.dk/magicrescue/
And although it's not always part of the data 'rescue and recovery theme... I need to do it just as often; wipe for secure file delete and hard drive scrubbing

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Hi! And thanks for your

Submitted by andrew on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 08:12.

Hi! And thanks for your input!

Yes, Ubuntu-rescue-remix is meant to be able to boot on a low-memory system. It is console-only partly for that reason.

I use GNU ddrescue instead of dcflss or any other imaging software. I find it works the best for me. If other tools work better for you, I will include them.

Fatback is not an Ubuntu package. What does it do that foremost or photorec cannot?

AIR and Gparted are great, it's just that the Rescue-remix does not provide a GUI for them to run in...

I will include magicrescue. I think that's an oversight, since I though that I had already included it... My bad...

Thanks!
Andrew

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Please included dls. It is

Submitted by The Rescuers (not verified) on Sat, 10/20/2007 - 17:52.

Please included dls. It is quite useful too.

NAME
dls - disk data recovery

SYNOPSIS
dls [-aAbelsvV] [-f fstype] [-i imgtype] [-o imgoffset] image [images] [start-
stop]

DESCRIPTION
dls opens the named image(s) and copies data blocks (disk units). By default,
dls copies unallocated data blocks (addressable disk units) only. dls was called
unrm in TCT.

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Hi! Thanks for your

Submitted by andrew on Sat, 10/20/2007 - 21:11.

Hi! Thanks for your input!

dsl is part of The Sleuth Kit and is already included.

I use it to find deleted files.

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