Re: [GTALUG] looking for a general purpose boot media to keep in case of distasters

bitmap via talk wrote on 2023-09-20 10:02:

Does this OpenSUSE image come with a broad range of tools? The debian, ubuntu, manjaro and others I have lying around are just the very basics. Am often missing something needed.

I seem to recall that Knoppix was a popular distro for repairing broken systems. This may be out-dated though. Also, ventoy is a tool that allows multiple bootable distros on a single USB stick, and I think allows some persistent storage. i.e. Use ventoy to install knoppix / whatever on a stick, boot the stick and install any missing tools, configure sshd, add scripts, etc., then next boot time everything ought to be available. I haven't yet tried this myself, just giving my 2¢ on how I'd approach things. rb