I know how to Google, and already know Debian still do 32-bit. Decided to put this here just to inspire discussion and such :)

I promised to take a look at friend’s daily driver, a 2006 Thinkpad T-series on Linux, that’s finally developed some problems. Plan is to boot up with some usb stick, image the drive with dd and then see if I can fix the thing.

Realised after promising that it’s probably not 64-bit, so I need a 32-bit system on the stick. Debian installer stick will work, but does anyone know of a ‘proper’ rescue system that is available in 32-bit?

    • tasankovasara@sopuli.xyzOP
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      1 day ago

      Nothing much – dd, support for ext3 which was the style at the time, and whatever the wired Ethernet in that old thing is. Sshfs would be nice.

      No need for a graphical environment. One thing that might be broken is the graphics adapter, since the machine supposedly boots every time, but once it gets into the display manager, it freezes. I figured if I keep it in text mode, it might stay up long enough for making a disk image. I haven’t yet got on with the operation, so I don’t know what the machine has.