Look no more, use this! https://www.system-rescue.org/System-tools/
Aaah glad they’re still kicking! This sends me way back…, a time when burning CDs was the thing
How did I not see this until now? I used this back in the day too! Thank you :)
I’ve been using Knoppix for this purpose for like the last 2 decades.
Adding on to other suggestions, if you’re not aware of Ventoy it’s a very handy tool. Using it you can have a USB drive with several live images on it which you can choose at boot time. Great for quick testing, just drop an ISO in a folder!
Depends what you’re after, but I’ve always been partial to gparted live.
Me too but I might replace with https://www.system-rescue.org/System-tools/. Gparted live is really hard to customize and doesn’t run as root, makes no sense for a rescue tool. SystemRescue also seems to come with something similar to rEFInd to boot broken systems…
I maintain my own Debian-based live image. It’s a general-purpose desktop, with a good amount of diagnostic/troubleshooting tools. It’s quite easy to build your own using different package lists or default configuration, etc.
https://www.slax.org/ It’s easy, is a full featured desktop, and has persistence on your USB stick.
Cheers, this looks perfect, and I like that it’s got a Debian build, it’s what I’m most familiar with.
I’ve gotten good mileage out of just an Ubuntu live image. If the network is working you can install packages via apt like normal, but they include a lot of the basics already.
