rescue cd with networkign and ssh!

[Devin Teske]

On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 11:24 -0800, Devin Teske wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 13:53 +0000, Paul Macdonald wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > can any recommend a live cd (any distro) that will mount ufs and has 
> > networking+sshd.
> 
> How about DruidBSD? http://druidbsd.sf.net/
> 
> Bullet Points:
> - ISO is 24MB
> - Contains over 150 standard (and some non-standard) BSD utilities
> - Runs entirely from memory
> - Is based on FreeBSD-8.1
> - Includes the tmpfs kernel module (should you need to allocate more
> disk space from RAM)
> - Works from optical media (CD/DVD) and USB flash drives

How to get this onto a thumb drive (using FreeBSD):

Step 1: Download DruidBSD-1.0b1.iso

Step 2: Insert your USB thumb drive.

Step 3: Execute: camcontrol devlist
NOTE: find the `daN' device associated with your thumb drive

Step 4: Execute: dd if=DruidBSD-1.0b1.iso of=/dev/da5
NOTE: assuming that `da5' is your thumb drive

Step 5: Execute: echo "p 2 0x0c * *" | fdisk -f - /dev/da5
NOTE: again, assuming `da5' is your thumb drive

Step 6: Execute: newfs_msdos /dev/da5s2
NOTE: again, assuming `da5' is your thumb drive

That's it. You now have a thumb drive with:

a. An invisible boot partition for booting into DruidBSD
b. The remainder of unused space allocated as a DOS-compatible
partition, usable under Mac, Windows, Linux, and UNIX.

When you plug the thumbdrive into any computer, it may appear to the
untrained eye that it's a blank thumb drive. Little do they know that
there's an invisible bootable partition chalk-full of utilities and a
full BSD distro.

NOTE: If want a UFS partition instead of a W95 FAT LBA partition, change
the above "p 2 0x0c * *" to instead "p 2 0xa5 * *" and also change
"newfs_msdos" to instead "newfs".
--
Devin


> - Utilizes crunchgen to maintain tiny footprint
> - Designed to be a fully-operational FreeBSD distribution for embedded
> devices but doubles as an amazing rescue-disc
> - Graphical boot-loader
> 
> Full Disclosure: I'm the author.
> 
> Quick-steps:
> 
> 1. Download either DruidBSD-X.Y.iso (24MB) or Druid-X.Y.iso (same as
> former, but adds valuable diagnostic utilities such as windiag, memtest,
> seatools, dban, and killdisk; 32MB).
> 
> 2. Burn to optical media _or_ use dd(1) to write directly to thumb drive
> _or_ load it directly into a VMware virtual machine's virtual-CDROM.
> 
> 3. Boot. That's it.
> 
> 
> 
> NOTE: If http://druidbsd.sf.net/ doesn't load for you, try instead
> http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/ (the former produces a 302-redirect to
> the latter which may not be followed by all HTTP clients).
> 
> 
> > 
> > I've tried pc bsie (2.1, 2.0, 1.1) which doesn't even seem to work on a 
> > test machine here , won;t mount the /dev/cd image ( folder is 0 bytes in 
> > iso) .
> > 
> > Ubuntu live will boot the box and sshd can be installed but it won;t 
> > mount the disks (apparently it needs a custom kernel).
> > 
> > the live cd image needs to work in a datacenter.
> > 
> > thanks
> > Paul.
> > 
> 
-- 
Cheers,
Devin Teske

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