[H-GEN] Linux live CDs [was Re: Linux file system problems]

[Russell Stuart]

On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 12:19 +1000, gavin duley wrote: 
> I haven't really managed to figure out a way of preventing the Ubuntu live CD from attempting to automount my hard drive yet. One other option is to try another live CD -- preferably one that is very basic -- I don't even need X11, just e2fsck and GNU parted. Any suggestions? The smaller the better, as I don't want to use up my ADSL monthly download quota too quickly :-)

A debian netinst CD is 180 Mb or so.  It won't automount anything when
it starts.  Press Alt+F2 to get a console.

  http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst

There is even a 40 Mb version at that sage site, but it may need a
working internet connection to download some drivers before it can see
your hardware or work with an ext4 file system.

Oh: and bandwidth is free at Humbug meetings.  So is advice.