Tell me your favourite rescue USB image and why!
Also rescue tips and tricks as that’s always interesting.
I have been using a Debian installer USB as I had it to hand (DVD image IIRC) but if I boot into a shell without mounting another root FS the number of utilities is quite limited (just busybox basics). For example just now I wanted gzip but it only had gunzip…
I feel like a shell started from the installer USB should have access to a lot more utilities because the files are there on the disk!
Does anyone know a way to set up a kind of USB like the debian installer where you can install packages from the installer into the live environment?
I just use whatever live image I last wrote to a flash drive, because it requires zero extra effort or storage, and they all have what I would need from a rescue environment anyway.
So what would you do if you needed gzip like in my example? In this example I was able to mount the root FS of the existing system to use it but that isn’t always possible.
I use full desktop live images. They have gzip, among many other things, including the ability to install more packages into the live environment’s RAM disk.