<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>- Kyle</div><div><br></div>[1]: <a href="https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage">https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage</a><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:04 PM Ken D'Ambrosio <<a href="mailto:ken@jots.org" target="_blank">ken@jots.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
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<div dir="ltr">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.</div></div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <span><<a href="mailto:ken@jots.org" target="_blank">ken@jots.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey, all. Many's the time I just want to go and fix something stupid --<br> maybe wipe a disk, or edit a file -- and all I want is to be able to<br> stick in a USB stick and wind up at said CLI. But most distros these<br> days are GUI-based. And Ubuntu Server (say) boots to install, period,<br> which is an<br> extremely-stripped-down-to-the-point-of-useless-for-anything-other-than-install<br> CLI.<br><br> Any middle ground someone could recommend?<br><br> Thanks!<br><br> -Ken<br> _______________________________________________<br> gnhlug-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org" target="_blank">gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/" target="_blank">http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/</a></blockquote>
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