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?

    • Quazatron
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      11 year ago

      Fixed. I hate typing on mobile phones so much.

      • @AlpacaChariotOP
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        21 year ago

        That makes a lot more sense. I was thinking “all I need is a small set of really small utilities called busybox, and… the chonkiest modern web browser”…? :D