r/Techsupport Bootable Diagnostics and Recovery

This media was created to assist users trying to rescue their systems and data. It contains the tools required to recover files, check network issues, and manipulate or verify disks and their health.

This is build is for Bullseye (11).

See config\package-lists\ for included packages.

Build

This process has been containerized and put into a DevOps pipeline requiring podman and buildah. The pipeline will produce an ISO based on the files contained in /config.

Tools list

basics

• curl
• wget
• mousepad
• firefox-esr

efi

• efibootmgr

disk tools

• gparted
• smartmontools
• gsmartcontrol
• nwipe
• hdparm
• ntfs-3g
• hfsprogs
• nvme-cli
• mdadm

files

• p7zip-full

net tools

• dnsutils
• traceroute
• gnome-nettool
• wireshark-gtk

encryption

• cryptsetup
• dislocker

recovery tools

• testdisk
• gddrescue
• clonezilla

hardware

• usbutils
• pciutils
• hardinfo

A note on sudo in podman and --privileged

It is required for the chroot stage of livebuild. See containers/podman#4619