The best one I have found is gparted however there are some awesome
tools in the System Rescue CD. Its free and open source. Plenty of
docs on the net about how to use it.
I use tmux rescue, and some others...
Another thing to check into is creating a Ventoy USB. It allows you to drop MANY .iso's on the USB and boot into a menu that lets you select
any ISO thats there...
So you can load up all your tools, cloners, and even several distros and only need one USB - I keep a 128GB Ventoy in my toolbag and I usually don't need to download anything.
Check it out;
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
pAULIE42o
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
I have been meaning to check this out. I have seen several videos
online about it. I just haven't taken the time to get it going. Maybe its about time.
I have been meaning to check this out. I have seen several videos
online about it. I just haven't taken the time to get it going. Maybe its about time.
On 06 Jun 2022, claw said the following...
I have been meaning to check this out. I have seen several videos online about it. I just haven't taken the time to get it going. May its about time.
I second the motion to use Ventoy. This is the product I kept wishing someone would make back when I was a tech. I now keep two disks with it
- a small 32GB one with my main installers and live CDs, and a 256GB one with just about everything I would ever use and enough room to drop
things on in a one-off fashion.
While I've found that it *usually* works, occasionally I run into a
system that doesn't like booting off the disk. I'm not sure the reason behind that, but it's still worth having in the toolbox.
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While I've found that it *usually* works, occasionally I run into a
system that doesn't like booting off the disk. I'm not sure the reason behind that, but it's still worth having in the toolbox.
I will be making one of these for travel. I use my Fog Server for installing most other common OSes
I haven't ever come across a machine that doesn't boot my Ventoy - but I guess mostly all of my systems are Linux based and happy to accept most anything... I never pop it into a Windows box - wonder if my Apple hardware will play ball, tho. :P
I will be making one of these for travel. I use my Fog Server for installing most other common OSes
Ok, I'll bite - whats a Fog Server?
pAULIE42o
I don't recall the specific configurations, but it was a matter of it getting hung at the splash screen and never letting me pick an ISO, or after I picked an ISO it failed. Those are rare, though.
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I had an MDT server set up for my Windows deployments at home, but I
found myself doing them infrequently enough that I kinda gave up on maintaining it. I haven't had a need to dig deep on Linux deployment, although I'd love to spend some time with MaaS and Ansible.
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did you try disabling secure boot?
Its super fun. https://fogproject.org/
What it does is allow PXE booting to install and OS, back one up and restore them.
Neat - I use ProxMox and 'templates' to accomplish similar, but
appreciate the link... another 'thing' to poke around in. w00t w00t.
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