Repairlix - is a networked Linux distribution/bootable system intended to fit in 12MB of media - so small that an image can be burned onto a business-card-sized shaped CDROM, suitable for your wallet. It has a suite of utilities for doing system recovery.
http://repairlix.sourceforge.net/
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SystemRescueCd - is a linux system on a bootable cdrom for repairing your system and your data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic ones (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It aims to be very easy to use: just boot from the cdrom, and you can do everything.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
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Crash Recovery Kit (CRK) - Crash Recovery for Linux sounds a bit superfluous. Linux is regarded as one of todays most stable Operating Systems. In the case of some hardware failure like a broken disk it can however be handy. Of course your machine doesn't have to have linux installed to make use of the CRK kit. There are several uses and purposes for the CRK to be used.
http://crashrecovery.org/
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Livrescue - is a small Linux rescue CD. It lies somewhere between minimalist boot floppies and large full-featured rescue CDs.
http://www.ivarch.co...ms/rescue.shtml
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Lubbock - is a Linux distro based on Linuxcare Bootable Business Card. This is a emergency tool with many uses.
http://lubbock.sourceforge.net/
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Timo's Rescue CD Set - is an approach for an easy way to generate a rescue system on a bootable cd, which can easily be adapted to the own needs.
http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/
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MiniKnoppix - has a lot of tools for system administration (backup/restore, filesystem check/creation, security, network testing, and more!).
http://www.inittab.org/lite.html
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RIP (Rescue is Possible) - This rescue distro comes in both a floppy version and a bootable CD version.
http://www.tux.org/p.../looplinux/rip/
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Trinity Rescue Kit - is designed to rescue/ repair/ prepare dead or damaged systems, be it Linux or Windows.
http://trinityhome.o...d=1&front_id=12
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Feather Linux Console Edition - is an edition of Feather Linux designed for rescuing corrupted or crashed systems, while still being smaller than 50Mb.
http://featherlinux....de/download.htm
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Emergency CD - is a (console) Live CD version for emergency and rescue your system.
http://sourceforge.n...s/emergencycd2/
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BG-Rescue Linux - This is a very small Linux distribution that fits on either two floppy disks or one eltorito-boot cd. You need at least a 386 machine with 16 mb ram to run BG-Rescue Linux.
http://freshmeat.net...jects/bgrescue/
