welcome to livarp-rescue.
livarp-rescue is a livecd based on livarp_0.4 Debian GNU/Linux built for disk and network diagnosis and data recovery.
livarp-rescue is built for advanced users knowing howto administer a sytem..
note that livarp-rescue includes non-free sources to run on most machine/system.
- os: Debian Wheezy
- window-manager: ratpoison / dvtm
- file-manager: rox-filer / ranger / mc
- web-browser: links2 / xlinks2
- editors: nano / vim / geany
- viewers: epdfview / gpicview
- terminal: urxvtcd
- shell: zsh by default
- ....
and a suite of tools for diagnosis and data recovery on Linux/m$/mac. here is the main installed package list:
# Name # Version # Description ############################################################################################################################################ accountsservice 0.6.21-8 query and manipulate user account information acpi 1.6-1 displays information on ACPI devices adduser 3.113+nmu3 add and remove users and groups adns-tools 1.4-2 Asynchronous-capable DNS client library and utilities aide 0.15.1-8 Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - static binary analog 2:6.0-19.1 web server log analyzer arandr 0.1.6-1 Simple visual front end for XRandR arpalert 2.0.11-7.1 monitor ARP changes in ethernet networks arping 2.11-1 sends IP and/or ARP pings (to the MAC address) arpwatch 2.1a15-1.2 Ethernet/FDDI station activity monitor autopsy 2.24-1 graphical interface to SleuthKit bc 1.06.95-2 The GNU bc arbitrary precision calculator language blktool 4-6.1 tune low-level block device parameters bmon 2.0.1-3 portable bandwidth monitor and rate estimator bonnie++ 1.96 Hard drive benchmark suite. bridge-utils 1.5-6 Utilities for configuring the Linux Ethernet bridge bsdmainutils 9.0.3 collection of more utilities from FreeBSD bsdutils 1:2.20.1-5.3 Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite btrfs-tools 0.19+20120328-7.1 Checksumming Copy on Write Filesystem utilities build-essential 11.5 Informational list of build-essential packages cabextract 1.4-3 Microsoft Cabinet file unpacker calcurse 2.9.2-1 text-based calendar and todo manager catfish 0.3.2-2 file search tool that support several different engines chkrootkit 0.49-4.1 rootkit detector chrootuid 1.3-6 Run commands in restricted environments clamav 0.97.8+dfsg-1 anti-virus utility for Unix - command-line interface clamtk 4.41-1 graphical front-end for ClamAV claws-mail 3.8.1-2 Fast, lightweight and user-friendly GTK2 based email client cpio 2.11+dfsg-0.1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of files cpuburn 1.4a-3 Collection of programs to put heavy load on CPU cpuid 3.3-9 Intel and AMD x86 CPUID display program crashme 2.4-9 Stress tests operating system stability cryptcat 20031202-4 A lightweight version netcat extended with twofish encryption cryptsetup 2:1.4.3-4 disk encryption support - startup scripts curl 7.26.0-1+wheezy2 command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax dar 2.4.5.debian.1-1 Disk ARchive: Backup directory tree and files dbench 4.0-2 The dbench (disk) and tbench (TCP) benchmarks debianutils 4.3.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian denyhosts 2.6-10 Utility to help sys admins thwart SSH crackers dfc 2.5.0-1 display file system usage using graph and colors diffutils 1:3.2-6 File comparison utilities directvnc 0.7.7-1 VNC client using the framebuffer as display discover 2.1.2-5.2 hardware identification system disktype 9-1 detection of content format of a disk or disk image dmidecode 2.11-9 SMBIOS/DMI table decoder dmraid 1.0.0.rc16-4.2 Device-Mapper Software RAID support tool dmsetup 2:1.02.74-7 Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspace library dnstracer 1.9-4 trace DNS queries to the source dnsutils 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2 Clients provided with BIND doscan 0.3.1-3 port scanner for discovering services on large networks dosfstools 3.0.13-1 utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems dsniff 2.4b1+debian-22 Various tools to sniff network traffic for cleartext insecurities dtrx 6.6-1.1 intelligently extract multiple archive types dump 0.4b44-1 4.4bsd dump and restore for ext2 filesystems duplicity 0.6.18-3 encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup dvd+rw-tools 7.1-10 DVD+-RW/R tools dvtm 0.6-1 Tiling window management for the console e2fslibs:i386 1.42.5-1.1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system libraries e2fsprogs 1.42.5-1.1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities epdfview 0.1.8-3 Lightweight pdf viewer based on poppler libs etherwake 1.09-3 A little tool to send magic Wake-on-LAN packets ethstatus 0.4.3 console-based ethernet statistics monitor ethtool 1:3.4.2-1 display or change Ethernet device settings fail2ban 0.8.6-3wheezy1 ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors fakeroot 1.18.4-2 tool for simulating superuser privileges feh 2.3-2 imlib2 based image viewer ffmpeg 6:0.8.6-1 Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder (transitional package) file 5.11-2 Determines file type using "magic" numbers file-roller 3.4.2-1 archive manager for GNOME filezilla 3.5.3-2 Full-featured graphical FTP/FTPS/SFTP client findutils 4.4.2-4 utilities for finding files--find, xargs fping 3.2-1 sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts fsarchiver 0.6.15-1 file system archiver fslint 2.42-2 Utility collection to find and fix common errors in file storage ftp 0.17-27 classical file transfer client fwanalog 0.6.9-6.2 firewall log-file report generator (using analog) fwlogwatch 1.2-2 Firewall log analyzer gawk 1:4.0.1+dfsg-2.1 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language gcr 3.4.1-3 GNOME crypto services (daemon and tools) gdb 7.4.1+dfsg-0.1 The GNU Debugger gdbserver 7.4.1+dfsg-0.1 The GNU Debugger (remote server) gddrescue 1.16-1 GNU data recovery tool geany 1.22+dfsg-2 fast and lightweight IDE genisoimage 9:1.1.11-2 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem images geoip-bin 1.4.8+dfsg-3 IP lookup command line tools that use the GeoIP library gfortran 4:4.7.2-1 GNU Fortran 95 compiler gnat 4.6 GNU Ada compiler gnupg 1.4.12-7 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement gparted 0.12.1-2 GNOME partition editor gpgv 1.4.12-7 GNU privacy guard - signature verification tool gpicview 0.2.3-2 lightweight image viewer gpm 1.20.4-6 General Purpose Mouse interface grdesktop 0.23+d040330-3 GNOME frontend for the rdesktop client grep 2.12-2 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep growisofs 7.1-10 DVD+-RW/R recorder gzip 1.5-1.1 GNU compression utilities hardinfo 0.5.1-1.2 Displays system information hddtemp 0.3-beta15-52 hard drive temperature monitoring utility hdparm 9.39-1+b1 tune hard disk parameters for high performance hexedit 1.2.12-4 view and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII hfsplus 1.0.4-12 Tools to access HFS+ formatted volumes hfsutils 3.2.6-11 Tools for reading and writing Macintosh volumes hostapd 1:1.0-3+b1 user space IEEE 802.11 AP and IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticator hostname 3.11 utility to set/show the host name or domain name hp-search-mac 0.1.3 Search for a MAC address on HP switches hping3 3.a2.ds2-6 Active Network Smashing Tool html2text 1.3.2a-15 advanced HTML to text converter htop 1.0.1-1 interactive processes viewer httping 1.5.3-1 ping-like program for http-requests hwinfo 16.0-2.2 Hardware identification system icmpinfo 1.11-7 Interpret ICMP messages icmpush 2.2-6 ICMP packet builder ifstat 1.1-8 InterFace STATistics Monitoring iftop 1.0~pre2-3 displays bandwidth usage information on an network interface ifupdown 0.7.8 high level tools to configure network interfaces ipcalc 0.41-2.1 parameter calculator for IPv4 addresses iproute 20120521-3+b3 networking and traffic control tools iptables 1.4.14-3.1 administration tools for packet filtering and NAT iputils-ping 3:20101006-1+b1 Tools to test the reachability of network hosts isc-dhcp-client 4.2.2.dfsg.1-5+deb70u3 ISC DHCP client lft 2.2-4 layer-four traceroute lftp 4.3.6-1+deb7u1 Sophisticated command-line FTP/HTTP client programs links2 2.7-1 Web browser running in both graphics and text mode linux-wlan-ng 0.2.9+dfsg-5 utilities for wireless prism2 cards lm-sensors 1:3.3.2-2 utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors logrotate 3.8.1-4 Log rotation utility lshw 02.16-1 information about hardware configuration lsof 4.86+dfsg-1 Utility to list open files ltrace 0.5.3-2.1 Tracks runtime library calls in dynamically linked programs lvm2 2.02.95-7 Linux Logical Volume Manager lwatch 0.6-1 Simple log colorizer lxappearance 0.5.2-1 LXDE GTK+ theme switcher macchanger 1.5.0-9 utility for manipulating the MAC address of network interfaces macchanger-gtk 1.1-4 a GTK+ interface for GNU/MACchanger magicrescue 1.1.8-1 recovers files by looking for magic bytes mailutils 1:2.99.97-3 GNU mailutils utilities for handling mail mawk 1.3.3-17 a pattern scanning and text processing language mbr 1.1.11-5+b1 Master Boot Record for IBM-PC compatible computers. mc 3:4.8.3-10 Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager mcelog 1.0~pre3-72-gcbd4da4-1 x86 Machine Check Exceptions collector and decoder mdadm 3.2.5-5 tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID) medusa 2.0-3.1 fast, parallel, modular, login brute-forcer for network services memtest86+ 4.20-1.1 thorough real-mode memory tester mg 20110905-1.1 microscopic GNU Emacs-style editor mii-diag 2.11-3+b1 A little tool to manipulate network cards moc 1:2.5.0~alpha4+svn20120224-1 ncurses based console audio player moreutils 0.47 additional Unix utilities most 5.0.0a-2.1 Pager program similar to more and less mplayer2 2.0-554-gf63dbad-1+b1 next generation movie player for Unix-like systems mscompress 0.3-4 Microsoft "compress.exe/expand.exe" compatible (de)compressor mtools 4.0.17-1 Tools for manipulating MSDOS files mtr-tiny 0.82-3 Full screen ncurses traceroute tool multiarch-support 2.13-38 Transitional package to ensure multiarch compatibility multitail 5.2.9-1 view multiple logfiles windowed on console nano 2.2.6-1+b1 small, friendly text editor inspired by Pico nast 0.2.0-6 packet sniffer and lan analyzer nbtscan 1.5.1-6 A program for scanning networks for NetBIOS name information ncdu 1.8-1 ncurses disk usage viewer ncftp 2:3.2.5-1.1 User-friendly and well-featured FTP client ndisc6 1.0.1-1+b1 IPv6 diagnostic tools ndisgtk 0.8.5-1 graphical frontend for ndiswrapper (installation of Windows WiFi drivers) net-tools 1.60-24.2 The NET-3 networking toolkit netbase 5.0 Basic TCP/IP networking system netcat 1.10-40 TCP/IP swiss army knife -- transitional package netcat-traditional 1.10-40 TCP/IP swiss army knife netdiscover 0.3beta6+20080409-5 active/passive network address scanner using arp requests netmask 2.3.12 helps determine network masks netpipe-tcp 3.7.2-7 Network performance tool using the TCP protocol netselect 0.3.ds1-25 speed tester for choosing a fast network server network-manager 0.9.4.0-10 network management framework (daemon and userspace tools) nfs-common 1:1.2.6-3 NFS support files common to client and server ngrep 1.45.ds2-12 grep for network traffic nilfs-tools 2.1.3-1 Continuous Snapshotting Log-structured Filesystem nload 0.7.4-1 realtime console network usage monitor nmap 6.00-0.3 The Network Mapper nsca 2.9.1-2 Nagios service monitor agent nsca-client 2.9.1-2 Nagios service monitor agent - client package nstreams 1.0.3-2+b1 network streams - a tcpdump output analyzer ntfs-3g 1:2012.1.15AR.5-2.1 read/write NTFS driver for FUSE ntfsprogs 1:2012.1.15AR.5-2.1 read/write NTFS driver for FUSE (transitional package) ntpdate 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-2 client for setting system time from NTP servers openssh-client 1:6.0p1-4 secure shell (SSH) client, for secure access to remote machines openssh-server 1:6.0p1-4 secure shell (SSH) server, for secure access from remote machines openssl 1.0.1e-2 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related cryptographic tools openvpn 2.2.1-8 virtual private network daemon os-prober 1.58 utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives p0f 2.0.8-2 Passive OS fingerprinting tool p7zip-full 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4 7z and 7za file archivers with high compression ratio packit 1.0-2 Network Injection and Capture par2 0.4-11 Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of files parprouted 0.70-1 transparent IP (Layer 3) proxy ARP bridging tool partimage 0.6.8-2.2 backup partitions into a compressed image file pciutils 1:3.1.9-6 Linux PCI Utilities pm-utils 1.4.1-9 utilities and scripts for power management portsentry 1.2-13 Portscan detection daemon ppp 2.4.5-5.1+b1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon pppoeconf 1.20 configures PPPoE/ADSL connections pptp-linux 1.7.2-7 Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Client procinfo 1:2.0.304-1 reporter for system information from /proc and /sys procps 1:3.3.3-3 /proc file system utilities psmisc 22.19-1+deb7u1 utilities that use the proc file system pstack 1.3.1-1 Display stack trace of a running process pv 1.2.0-1 Shell pipeline element to meter data passing through pwgen 2.06-1+b2 Automatic Password generation pyrenamer 0.6.0-1.1 mass file renamer written in PyGTK ranger 1.5.4-1 File manager with an ncurses frontend written in Python ratpoison 1.4.5-4 keyboard-only window manager rdate 1:1.2-5 sets the system's date from a remote host rdesktop 1.7.1-1 RDP client for Windows NT/2000 Terminal Server and Windows Servers rdiff 0.9.7-9 Binary diff tool for signature-based differences rdiff-backup 1.2.8-7 remote incremental backup recoverjpeg 2.0-3.1 tool to recover JPEG images from a filesystem image reiser4progs 1.0.7-6.3 administration utilities for the Reiser4 filesystem reiserfsprogs 1:3.6.21-1 User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems rinse 2.0.1-1 RPM installation environment rkhunter 1.4.0-1 rootkit, backdoor, sniffer and exploit scanner rlwrap 0.37-3 readline feature command line wrapper rox-filer 2.10-3 A simple graphical file manager for X11 rpcbind 0.2.0-8 converts RPC program numbers into universal addresses rpm 4.10.0-5+deb7u1 package manager for RPM rpm2cpio 4.10.0-5+deb7u1 tool to convert RPM package to CPIO archive rsnapshot 1.3.1-3 local and remote filesystem snapshot utility rsync 3.0.9-4 fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool rsyslog 5.8.11-3 reliable system and kernel logging daemon rxvt-unicode-256color 9.15-2 multi-lingual terminal emulator with Unicode support for X11 saidar 0.17-1 curses-based program which displays live system statistics scalpel 1.60-1 A Frugal, High Performance File Carver scanssh 2.0-4+b3 get SSH server versions for an entire network screen 4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7 terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation scrot 0.8-13 command line screen capture utility scsitools 0.12-2.1 Collection of tools for SCSI hardware management sdparm 1.07-1 Output and modify SCSI device parameters secure-delete 3.1-5 tools to wipe files, free disk space, swap and memory sed 4.2.1-10 The GNU sed stream editor sensible-utils 0.0.7 Utilities for sensible alternative selection sipcalc 1.1.5-1 Advanced console-based ip subnet calculator smartmontools 5.41+svn3365-1 control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T. smbclient 2:3.6.6-6 command-line SMB/CIFS clients for Unix sntop 1.4.3-4 A curses-based utility that polls hosts to determine connectivity socat 1.7.1.3-1.4 multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer spinner 1.2.4-3 Sends small packets over a idle link squashfs-tools 1:4.2-5 Tool to create and append to squashfs filesystems ssh 1:6.0p1-4 secure shell client and server (metapackage) sshfs 2.4-1 filesystem client based on SSH File Transfer Protocol ssldump 0.9b3-4.1 An SSLv3/TLS network protocol analyzer strace 4.5.20-2.3 A system call tracer stress 1.0.1-1 A tool to impose load on and stress test a computer system subversion 1.6.17dfsg-4+deb7u2 Advanced version control system suckless-tools 38-2 simple commands for minimalistic window managers synaptic 0.75.13 Graphical package manager sysfsutils 2.1.0+repack-2 sysfs query tool and boot-time setup syslinux 2:4.05+dfsg-6+deb7u1 collection of boot loaders sysstat 10.0.5-1 system performance tools for Linux tar 1.26+dfsg-0.1 GNU version of the tar archiving utility tcpdump 4.3.0-1 command-line network traffic analyzer tcpreen 1.4.4-2 Simple TCP re-engineering tool tcpreplay 3.4.3-2+wheezy1 Tool to replay saved tcpdump files at arbitrary speeds tcptraceroute 1.5beta7+debian-4 traceroute implementation using TCP packets testdisk 6.13-1 Partition scanner and disk recovery tool tofrodos 1.7.9.debian.1-1 Converts DOS <-> Unix text files, alias tofromdos traceroute 1:2.0.18-3 Traces the route taken by packets over an IPv4/IPv6 network transmission-gtk 2.52-3+nmu1 lightweight BitTorrent client (GTK interface) tsconf 1.0-11 touch screen library common files tshark 1.8.2-5wheezy2 network traffic analyzer - console version tweak 3.01-8 Efficient text-mode hex editor ucf 3.0025+nmu3 Update Configuration File: preserve user changes to config files. udftools 1.0.0b3-14.2 tools for UDF filesystems and DVD/CD-R(W) drives units 1.88-1 converts between different systems of units unrar-free 1:0.0.1+cvs20071127-2 Unarchiver for .rar files unshield 0.6-3 extracts CAB files from InstallShield installers unzip 6.0-8 De-archiver for .zip files usbmuxd 1.0.7-2 USB multiplexor daemon for iPhone and iPod Touch devices usbutils 1:005-3 Linux USB utilities util-linux 2.20.1-5.3 Miscellaneous system utilities vim 2:7.3.547-7 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor vlan 1.9-3 user mode programs to enable VLANs on your ethernet devices vlock 2.2.2-3 Virtual Console locking program vpnc 0.5.3r512-2 Cisco-compatible VPN client wdiff 1.1.2-1 Compares two files word by word weechat 0.3.8-1+deb7u1 Fast, light and extensible chat client wget 1.13.4-3 retrieves files from the web whiptail 0.52.14-11.1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts whois 5.0.23 intelligent WHOIS client wipe 0.22-1 Secure file deletion wireshark-common 1.8.2-5wheezy2 network traffic analyzer - common files wmctrl 1.07-7 control an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager wodim 9:1.1.11-2 command line CD/DVD writing tool x11-apps 7.7~2 X applications x11-utils 7.7~1 X11 utilities x11-xfs-utils 7.7~1 X font server utilities x11-xkb-utils 7.7~1 X11 XKB utilities x86info 1.30-2 Display diagnostic information about i386 compatible CPUs xcolorsel 1.1a-17 display colors and names in X xdotool 1:2.20100701.2961-3+deb7u3 simulate X11 keyboard/mouse input xfburn 0.4.3-5 CD-burner application for Xfce Desktop Environment xfsdump 3.0.6 Administrative utilities for the XFS filesystem xfsprogs 3.1.7+b1 Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem xosview 1.9.3-3 X based system monitor xterm 278-4 X terminal emulator xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 XZ-format compression utilities zsh 4.3.17-1 shell with lots of features
download
get livarp-rescue on the dedicated page (Squeeze or Wheezy based).
livarp-rescue is distributed in ISO-HYBRID format (~657M), ready to put on a CD or used on a USBkey with thedd command to execute in the livarp_040_rescue.iso directory:
assuming /dev/sdX is the path of your usb stick
utilisation
livarp-rescue starts with the syslinux menu. the default entry launches the 686 kernel (for modern computers). choose the 'live 486' entry if your processor is older and doesn't support pae option.
livarp-rescue comes with 2 window-managers: a cli one (dvtm) and a gui one (ratpoison)
if you stay in tty, livarp launches dvtm after the cli-keyboard-selector. [h], [k], [t] and [f] let you acces to the Help, Keys, Tools files or shell Functions.
if you lanch Xserver, ratpoison starts after the gui-keyboard-selector
- menu is available on the top-left corner of your screen and is handled by fbpanel
- livarp tools list is available from the menu entry 'livarp tool-list'.
changelog
- zsh as default shell
- ratpoison as default window manager
- rox-filer as default file manager
- ratpoison off-line documentation