Knoppix

From Wikipedia:

Knoppix was one of the first Live CD Linux distributions to gain popularity.^[7] There are several factors that contribute to the popularity of Knoppix:

• Knoppix was one of the first Live CDs available, and is known as the "original" Debian-based Live CD
• Its extensive hardware detection allows most systems to start Knoppix without any configuration
• Its ability to automatically connect to most kinds of networks^{[citation needed]}
• Its utilities for system repair and troubleshooting

Used by Blue Light (Charles and Sam) as alternative to GRML.

.iso and related files available in rose:home/share/resources/iso-images/Knoppix/KNOPPIX_V7.2.0CD-2013-06-16-EN and can be downloaded via http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

Usage notes

Assuming Knoppix is being used for maintenance work on a standard Blue Light installation of Debian or Ubuntu, after Knoppix has booted and the lxde desktop appears:

1. Start a terminal session.
2. Become root (no password required):
   su -
3. Activate all the RAID arrays:
   mdadm-startall
   Reference: http://wiki.bluelightav.org/display/BLUE/RAID+with+MDADM#RAIDwithMDADM-Startthearraysatonce
4. Find and activate the volume groups:
   vgscan
vgchange -ay
   Reference: http://wiki.bluelightav.org/display/BLUE/LVM#LVM-ActivateLVMs
5. The file systems on the LVs will automatically be mounted under /media.

GRML

Used by Blue Light as an alternative to Crowbar.

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Iso available as rose:/home/share/resources/iso-images/other/grml96-full_2013.02.iso and can be downloaded from: http://grml.org/

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Usage notes

At boot choose the version according to your CPU architecture

Activate all the RAID

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arrays

http://wiki.bluelightav.org/display/BLUE/RAID+with+MDADM#RAIDwithMDADM-Startthearraysatonce

Activate all the

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LVs

http://wiki.bluelightav.org/display/BLUE/LVM#LVM-ActivateLVMs

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