[PLUG] Knoppix live cd

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

Oops.

Read unmountable instead of uncountable.

Damn this autocorrect..

On Sun, Aug 13, 2023, 12:05 AM Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well,
> What you needed is some bootable system that can do fsck on your
> uncountable file system. I offered Ubuntu that can do that job.
>
> If you want to compare various bootable distros, that's a different
> discussion.
>
> Please decide your priority... Whether to make your system workable or
> compare distros
>
> Regards
> Sudhanwa
>
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2023, 10:43 PM shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Am on mobile so will be brief. Not trying to incite a religious war or
>> anything. Knoppix was launched & took the web by storm in 2002. Klaus
>> Knopper was the first guy to think & launch a live cd. He used a combo of
>> hwsetup (from Redhat), a whole bunch of stuff from Debian. There's actually
>> an interview of him in May 2002.
>>
>> Ubuntu meanwhile for all their resources launched in/around mid 2005. I
>> remember both as both also came in lfy couple months later. IIRC lfy had
>> also shared distrowatch interview.
>>
>> So Klaus Knopper took stuff from rh, Debian & later even bsd (security
>> tools). The above mentioned hwsetup is still used while installing Debian.
>>
>> That alone should tell you. Btw one way or another Debian did get
>> influenced & started carrying the same tools.
>>
>> Ubuntu on the other hand, has deviated a lot. How good or bad I leave to
>> other's judgments.
>>
>> Till later.
>>
>> Fwiw, wayback archive machine could be used to authenticate the data, I
>> might be wrong by few months but definitely Ubuntu came much much later.
>>
>> On Wed, 9 Aug, 2023, 10:44 pm Sudhanwa Jogalekar, <sudhanwa.com at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Got Ubuntu 2204 bootable pen drive. That should be useful to you.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 6:55 PM shirish शिरीष via plug-mail <
>>> plug-mail at plug.org.in> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, am in bit of jam. Can someone help out. Have bandwidth, have pen
>>>> drive. Unable to mount /home hence need a knoppix live cd to fsck /home &
>>>> be able to mount it. Please lemme know if someone can help.
>>>>
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