Boot-to-CLI distro?

[Shawn O'Shea]

+1 for system rescue cd.

As far as other handy utility distros. If I'm just resizing a partition,
I'll do gparted live (Gui but goes straight to gparted partition editor)
and if imaging (backup/restore) then Clonezilla Live.

http://gparted.org/livecd.php
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php

-Shawn
On Feb 17, 2016 2:15 PM, "Kyle Smith" <askreet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Check out SystemRescueCD[1], which I'm sure can be burned to a USB drive.
> Boots to a shell and comes with a ton of recovery tools and scripts to
> assist in getting a broken system operable.
>
> - Kyle
>
> [1]: https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:04 PM Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-02-17 13:49, Brian Chabot wrote:
>>
>> In GRUB, boot to init 1, single user mode.'
>>
>>
>>
>> Which is great.  If you catch it.  And if it doesn't override you (as
>> some live install disks I've seen, do).  Hell -- I'd be happy with the "rw
>> init=/bin/bash" bit for all I need, but even that, for example, isn't
>> cutting the mustard on one server I've got.  I guess I could spin my own,
>> but I figured someone out there probably had a
>> stick-it-in-and-boot-to-CLI-no-interaction-needed option in their back
>> pocket.
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>
>>
>> Brian Chabot
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, all.  Many's the time I just want to go and fix something stupid --
>>> maybe wipe a disk, or edit a file -- and all I want is to be able to
>>> stick in a USB stick and wind up at said CLI.  But most distros these
>>> days are GUI-based.  And Ubuntu Server (say) boots to install, period,
>>> which is an
>>>
>>> extremely-stripped-down-to-the-point-of-useless-for-anything-other-than-install
>>> CLI.
>>>
>>> Any middle ground someone could recommend?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> -Ken
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