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Tips for handy 32-bit Intel rescue USB images
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Porteus. it's a slackware based distro made for live usage
You can still download the old 32-Bit releases, see the “previous versions” section on the Download page.
from SystemRescue homepage
Thanks! Took a browse and it looks like 8.04 was the last release with a 32-bit version.
Be more specific about what you need. Modern kernel, desktop, data rescue tools...etc?
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.
Debian will work fine. Force a terminal down if needed, but skip the GDM.
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