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

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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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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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Adding on to other suggestions, if you’re not aware of Ventoy it’s a very handy tool. Using it you can have a USB drive with several live images on it which you can choose at boot time. Great for quick testing, just drop an ISO in a folder!

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Unfortunately I believe the usb has to be created from Windows…

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What makes you think that? Their website has instructions for installation via a Linux box. https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html

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I’d go with a live image of whatever distro you’re most familiar with. I usually go with the arch iso or endeavor os if I need a GUI.

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Well arch is one psrticulair i would not keep on a USB. The issue comes when you need to use it after some months. And it is then very outdated

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I’ve been using Knoppix for this purpose for like the last 2 decades.

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