[lug] Windoze-based linux emergency disk

[Nate Duehr]

Don't forget a bootable parted floppy or CD-ROM!  :-)

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:27:03AM -0600, Sexton, George wrote:
> I ran Putty off a CD Saturday night and it worked fine.
> 
> Here's my idea of an Emergency Disk.
> 
> Bootable Tom's Root Boot
> Bootable Win98 Disk Image
> 
> Disk Image of MemTest along with RAWRITE.
> 
> McAfee Virus Scanner
> 
> Putty
> PSCP
> PFE32 Programmer's File Editor
> ZIP
> UNZIP
> 
> 
> For Software I usually add:
> 
> Acrobat Reader
> Netscape
> MDAC
> NT 4.0 SP 6
> TweakUI
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of John Starkey
> Sent: 24 September, 2001 11:47 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] Windoze-based linux emergency disk
> 
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has put together a CD with PuTTY and any other
> apps that they can carry with them for remote admin emergencies. I'm trying
> to put together a solution for those times when I'm not around a machine
> armed with these. In situations where I can't just install apps on someone
> elses computer.
> 
> Anyone know of a reason that putting PuTTY on a CD and executing it from
> there wouldn't work? I don't know how Windoze treats it. Does Windoze need
> to write to the hard drive? If I execute PuTTY will it leave a foot print on
> the machine? I'll be borrowing a mcahine to burn the CD so I kinda need to
> cover all the bases before hand.
> 
> TIA.
> 
> John
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