John Summerfield wrote:
> Stephen Liu wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>>
>> Tks for your advice.
>>
>>
>>> My favourite rescue CD is Knoppix; it's pretty handy for both linux
>>> and Windows work, though I don't recall using it in connexion with LVM.
>>> I'm sure it would work, just not as nicely as usual.
>>
>> I tried Knoppix-5.1.1 before I came to SL.  It did not work for me
>> because the OS to be rescued is 64bit.  Knoppix-5.1.1 is 32bit.
> 
> That doesn't follow. Knoppix is't NT either, but it does a fine job of 
> rescuing/copying broken Windows.
> 
> Knoppix may not run 64-bit binaries any more than it runs NT binaries, 
> but it understands the filesystems well enough, and that's a large 
> proportion of the recovery-type work I find necessary.
> 

It really depends on what you need to rescue.
If you need to chroot to the OS, then you have to match 64 bit to 64 bit.  I've 
had to do that several times, and it is a bit of a pain when all I can find are 
32 bit rescue cd's.
But you are correct, if you are rescuing or modifying a file system, then it 
doesn't matter if it's 32 or 64 bit.
Troy
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