True Stories of Knoppix Rescues

Omniscientist writes "We've all been there: Our system is on the edge of death and we need to either fix it or retrieve important data that still remains hidden away in its dying clutches. LinuxDevCenter has a funny article on a heroic tale of a sysadmin relying on Knoppix to save the day. I for one, always make a boot disk in case of problems, but Knoppix can turn a bad day into a good one for just about anyone. Perhaps every administrator should have a Knoppix CD on reserve."

Well...

[Blue-Footed Boobie]

I, for one, welcome our new bootdisk making...

Aw, fuck it.

Virtual to Virtual migration

[Anonymous Coward]

I have used knoppix and dd to migrate virtual machines from Virtual Server/Virtual PC to VMware. Now if that ain't a rescue, I don't know what is.

The obviousness

[ZeeExSixAre]

The article is well-summed-up in this gem here:

I suppose the moral of this story is to be careful when you play around with the dd command and your MBR.

DOY!

what a coincedence

[drunken dash]

i just burnt myself a cd of knoppix-3.8 the other day, for just this reason! although i've had no reason to use it (yet), im hoping my system starts acting up soon so i finally have an excuse to use it :P

Re:Well...

[AceCaseOR]

Don't you mean "fsck it"?

No Backups?

[goldspider]

OK let me see if I have this straight.

Some "battle-hardened" sysadmin (who apparently doesn't to do regular backups... hmm...) salvages a few systems with Knoppix, and it's front-page news?

Must be a real slow news day.

Re:Why is this a story?

[gardyloo]

Yeah, but lotion seems to take care of that, after a little while.

Early one morning . . .

[ManDude]

I had always read about this happening to other guys, but never thought it would happen to me.

I was coiming into work early Monday morning knowing I had to reinstall everything on the secondary email server that went down on Sunday. I thought I would be the only one in, but Suzie from accounting had come in early too.

I always loved her emails when she needed some help. They were cheerful and she had clearly always researched the problem she was haveing rather than the normal "it just doesn't work".

She came up and told me when she booted up the system it wouldn't get past the initial Windows boot screen. She was wearing a tight baby blue collared shirt with a short black skirt. No stockings and black high heals. She leaned low and as I was looking at her black bra said in a slow sexy voice - "Can you fix it?"

That's when I pulled out my Knoppix . . .

Re:Mepis may be a better choice

[Anonymous Coward]

Okay, so I'm scratching my head trying to imagine a scenario where you need to rescue a system and getting the sound card working is critical. Or relevant.

No luck so far.

Re:Early one morning . . .

[Zate]

aaannnd theeeennn ??


no and then !!

Re:Mepis may be a better choice

[darc]

Well, suppose you're in Starfleet, and the holodeck is acting up. Now, there's a series of commands that just can't be activated using the LCARS interface, and instead has to be inputted using voice authentication through the ship's AI engine. Basically, you put in the knoppix cd, reboot your starship, and then...

"Computer, vee eye slash etc slash lye low"
"escape down down down colon a ...."