looking for a live distro for a damaged computer

[Noam Rathaus]

Erez,

If you can blind type you can use SysRescueCD: 
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

It starts everything you asked, it has minimal requirements and works on any 
new hardware I gave it - even those that Debian Testing/Unstable couldn't 
boot to.

Once it is up, you need to write the command 'passwd', to type the root 
password, otherwise you can't remotely login to it via SSH.

On Thursday 12 February 2009 11:58:51 Erez D wrote:
> hi
>
> A friend of mine has a damaged laptop - no display (not even via the VGA
> connector). i want to use it as a server.
> to do that i need access it first. but i have no display ...
>
> I am looking for a live distro (CD) that will automatically (without
> needing keyboard / mouse / display ) connect to the network (via ethernet &
> dhcp) and run sshd.
>
> my other options are:
> 1. modify a live cd to do that
> 2. install linux on a different computer, and then transfer the hard-drive
> to the broken laptop.
>
> however, i prefer to have a live distro that does that already.
>
> anyone knows of duch a distro ?
>
> 10x,
> erez.


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