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I just use debian for my ventoy. But all you really need is a proper partition manager.

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I’m not sure I know what you mean by diagnosing, but it’s usually a good idea to use the same distro you’re having trouble with.

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True. And use chroot ;) then you can apt update, etc. If the problem is on the distro itself (e.g. not a failing hard drive)

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Diagnosing hardware issues, which doesn’t necessarily need the same distro.

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Depends what you’re after, but I’ve always been partial to gparted live.

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Me too but I might replace with https://www.system-rescue.org/System-tools/. Gparted live is really hard to customize and doesn’t run as root, makes no sense for a rescue tool. SystemRescue also seems to come with something similar to rEFInd to boot broken systems…

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I’ve gotten good mileage out of just an Ubuntu live image. If the network is working you can install packages via apt like normal, but they include a lot of the basics already.

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Aaah glad they’re still kicking! This sends me way back…, a time when burning CDs was the thing

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How did I not see this until now? I used this back in the day too! Thank you :)

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