welcome to livarp-rescue.

livarp-rescue is a livecd based on livarp Debian GNU/Linux built for disk and network diagnosis and data recovery.

livarp-rescue is built for advanced users knowing howto administer a sytem..

• os: Debian Squeeze
• window-manager: dwm-6.1-reloaded / dvtm
• file-manager: pcmanfm / ranger / mc
• web-browser: links2 / w3m
• ....

and a full suite of tools for diagnosis and data recovery on Linux/m$/mac:

[[ MISCELLANEOUS - TEXT BASED ------------------------------------------
chkrootkit : rootkit detector
gpm : General Purpose Mouse interface
screen : terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
cpuburn : a collection of programs to put heavy load on CPU
directvnc : VNC client using the framebuffer as display
vlan : user mode programs to enable VLANs on your ethernet devices
spinner : Sends small packets over a idle link to keep the link up
memtest86+ : Memtest scans your RAM for errors

[[ MISCELLANEOUS - GRAPHICAL -------------------------------------------
dwm : dwm is a minimalistic window manager
suckless-tools : simple commands for minimalistic window managers (dmenu,lsw,slock,sslep,ssid,swarp,tabbed,wmname)
fbpanel : A lightweight X11 desktop panel
hardinfo : display system information
grandr : A simple gtk interface to the X Resize And Rotate (XRandR) extension
fbxkb : X11 keyboard indicator and switcher
xdotool : simulate X11 keyboard/mouse input
epdfview : Lightweight pdf viewer based on poppler libs
xterm : X terminal emulator
rxvt-unicode : RXVT-like terminal emulator with Unicode support
xscreensaver : Automatic screensaver for X
murrine-themes : themes for gtk2 murrine engine
grdesktop : GNOME frontend for the rdesktop client
x11-apps : This package provides a miscellaneous assortment of X applications that ship with the X Window System

[[ UTILITIES -----------------------------------------------------------
dvtm : dynamic virtual terminal manager
pcmanfm : PCMan File Manager is a gtk2 based file manager for the X Window System
ranger : File manager with an ncurses frontend written in Python
tablaunch : simple, cool-looking x application launchbar written in c
mc : GNU Midnight Commander is a text-mode full-screen file manager
conky-cli : highly configurable system monitor
lxappearance : LXAppearance is a new feature-rich GTK+ theme switcher able to change GTK+ themes, icon themes, and fonts
console-data : This package provides the standard data files for the Linux console tools
catfish : file search tool that support several different engines
rar : Archiver for .rar files
unrar : Unarchiver for .rar files
lsof : List open files
htop : interactive processes viewer
units : converts between different systems of units
clamav : anti-virus utility for Unix - command-line interface
clamav-data : clamav data files
clamtk : graphical front-end for ClamAV
ddrescue : copy data from one file or block device to another
gddrescue : the GNU data recovery tool
dar : Disk ARchive: Backup directory tree and files
dump : 4.4bsd dump and restore for ext2 filesystems
duplicity : encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup
sshfs : filesystem client based on SSH File Transfer Protocol
sysfsutils : sysfs query tool and boot-time setup
fuse-utils : Simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel
lde : Linux Disk Editor
tofrodos : Converts DOS into/from Unix text files, alias tofromdos
rlwrap : readline feature command line wrapper
tripwire : file and directory integrity checker
cabextract : a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files
p7zip : 7zr file archiver with high compression ratio
magicrescue : recovers files by looking for magic bytes
scalpel : A Frugal, High Performance File Carver
gnupg : GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
ltrace : Tracks runtime library calls in dynamically linked programs
strace : A system call tracer
os-prober : utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives
syslinux : collection of boot loaders
vlock : Virtual Console locking program
moreutils : additional Unix utilities (combine,ifdata,ifne,isutf8,lckdo,mispipe,parallel,pee,sponge,ts,vidir,vipe,zrun)
rdiff : Binary diff tool for signature-based differences
rdiff-backup : remote incremental backup
rsnapshot : local and remote filesystem snapshot utility
secure-delete : tools to wipe files, free disk space, swap and memory
wipe : Secure file deletion
scsitools : Collection of tools for SCSI hardware management
smartmontools : control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T.
dmidecode : Dump Desktop Management Interface data
lshw : information about hardware configuration
procinfo : reporter for system information from /proc and /sys
read-edid : hardware information-gathering tool for VESA PnP monitors
cpio : GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of files
openssl : Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related cryptographic tools
pv : Pipe Viewer: Shell pipeline element to meter data passing through
acl : contains the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists
symlinks : scan/change symbolic links
bsdmainutils : collection of more utilities from FreeBSD (banner,calendar,col,colcrt,colrm,column...)
saidar : curses-based program which displays live system statistics
dbench : The dbench (disk) and tbench (TCP) benchmarks
multitail : view multiple logfiles windowed on console
usbutils : Linux USB utilities
xosview : X based system monitor
b43-fwcutter : Utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
libnotify-bin : sends desktop notifications to a notification daemon
ccze : A robust, modular log coloriser
acpi : displays information on ACPI devices
lm-sensors : utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors
hddtemp : hard drive temperature monitoring utility
bonnie++ : Hard drive benchmark suite.
par2 : Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of files
udisks-glue : simple automount daemon with support for user-defined actions

[[ GRAPHICS ------------------------------------------------------------
feh : feh is a fast, lightweight image viewer which uses imlib

[[ GAME AND AMUSEMENT --------------------------------------------------
tint : As the title suggests, this is a clone of the original tetris game
ninvaders : A space invaders-like game using ncurses
pacman4console : a console based pacman game

[[ SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION -----------------------------------------------
ncdu : ncurses disk usage viewer
fsarchiver : system tool that allows you to save the contents of a file system to a compressed archive file
gksu : graphical frontend to su
synaptic : Graphical package manager
rkhunter : rootkit, backdoor, sniffer and exploit scanner
testdisk/photorec : Partition scanner and disk/image recovery tool
mt-st : Linux SCSI tape driver aware magnetic tape control
reiserfsprogs : User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems
reiser4progs : administration utilities for the Reiser4 filesystem
xfsdump : Administrative utilities for the XFS filesystem
xfsprogs : Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem
cryptsetup : configures encrypted block devices
dmraid : Device-Mapper Software RAID support tool
e2fsprogs : ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities
lsscsi : list all SCSI devices (or hosts) currently on system
lvm2 : The Linux Logical Volume Manager
mdadm : tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
nilfs-tools : Continuous Snapshotting Log-structured Filesystem
dmsetup : The Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspace library
cpuid : Intel and AMD x86 CPUID display program
x86info : Display diagnostic information about i386 compatible CPUs
hwinfo : Hardware identification system
hal : Hardware Abstraction Layer
aide : Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - static binary
sleuthkit : collection of tools for forensics analysis on volume and file system data
autopsy : graphical interface to SleuthKit
pwgen : Automatic Password generation
rpm : package manager for RPM
mcelog : x86-64 Machine Check Exceptions collector and decoder
dpkg : Debian package management system
discover : hardware identification system
psmisc : utilities that use the proc file system (fuser,killall,peekfd,pstree,prtstat)
grub : GRand Unified Bootloader
lilo : LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can load Linux and others
mbr : Master Boot Record for IBM-PC compatible computers
sdparm : Output and modify SCSI device parameters
hdparm : tune hard disk parameters for high performance
blktool : tune low-level block device parameters
partimage : backup partitions into a compressed image file
mcelog : x86-64 Machine Check Exceptions collector and decoder
pciutils : Linux PCI Utilities
sysstat : system performance tools for Linux (sar,iostat,mpstat,pidstat,sadf)
chrootuid : Run commands in restricted environments
debootstrap : Bootstrap a basic Debian system
cdebootstrap : cdebootstrap is used to create a Debian base system from scratch
rinse : This is a tool for bootstrapping a basic RPM-based distribution of GNU/Linux
netbase : Basic TCP/IP networking system
arpwatch : Ethernet/FDDI station activity monitor
hp-search-mac : Search for a MAC address on HP switches
samhain : Data integrity and host intrusion alert system
medusa : fast, parallel, modular, login brute-forcer for network services
lwatch : A simple log colorizer
boot-repair : simple tool to recover access to your Operating Systems

[[ GNOME DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT -------------------------------------------
file-roller : an archive manager for GNOME
gparted : GNOME partition editor
zenity : Display graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts
network-manager-gnome : network management framework (GNOME frontend)
pyrenamer : mass file renamer written in PyGTK

[[ XFCE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT --------------------------------------------
xfburn : CD-burner application for Xfce Desktop Environment

[[ NETWORKING ----------------------------------------------------------
mcabber : small Jabber (XMPP) console client
weechat : WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light chat client
ftp : The FTP client
filezilla : Full-featured graphical FTP/FTPS/SFTP client
pptp-linux : Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Client
smbclient : command-line SMB/CIFS clients for Unix
nfs-common : NFS support files common to client and server
rsync : fast remote file copy program (like rcp)
ncftp : A user-friendly and well-featured FTP client
lftp/lftpget : Sophisticated command-line FTP/HTTP client programs
net-tools : The NET-3 networking toolkit (arp,ifconfig,netstat,rarp,nameif,route,plipconfig,slattach,mii-tool,iptunnel,ipmaddr)
hostap-utils : Utility programs for Host AP driver for Intersil Prism2/2.5/3
hostapd : user space IEEE 802.11 AP and IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticator
iftop : displays bandwidth usage information on an network interface
cryptcat : A lightweight version netcat extended with twofish encryption
etherwake : A little tool to send magic Wake-on-LAN packets
ifenslave-2.6 : Attach and detach slave interfaces to a bonding device
ethtool : display or change Ethernet device settings
ipcalc : parameter calculator for IPv4 addresses
sipcalc : Advanced console-based ip subnet calculator
mii-diag : A little tool to manipulate network cards
netcat : TCP/IP swiss army knife
netmask : helps determine network masks
openvpn : virtual private network daemon
vpnc : Cisco-compatible VPN client
strongswan : IPsec VPN solution metapackage
socat : multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer
ssh : secure shell client and server
telnet-ssl : The telnet client with SSL encryption support
whois : an intelligent whois client
denyhosts : a program that automatically blocks SSH brute-force attacks by adding entries to /etc/hosts.deny
fail2ban : bans IPs that cause multiple authentication errors
iptables : administration tools for packet filtering and NAT
knockd : small port-knock daemon
portsentry : Portscan detection daemon
rdate : sets the system's date from a remote host
ntpdate : client for setting system time from NTP servers
atm-tools : Base programs for ATM in Linux, the net-tools for ATM
bridge-utils : Utilities for configuring the Linux Ethernet bridge
parprouted : This is useful for creation of transparent firewalls and bridging networks with different MAC protocols
mtr-tiny : mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool
tcptraceroute : traceroute implementation using TCP packets
traceroute : Traces the route taken by packets over an IPv4/IPv6 network
arpalert : Monitor ARP changes in ethernet networks
bmon : portable bandwidth monitor and rate estimator
ethstatus : console-based ethernet statistics monitor
ettercap : Multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN
geoip-bin : IP lookup command line tools that use the GeoIP library
icmpinfo : a tool for looking at the ICMP messages received on the running host
ifstat : InterFace STATistics Monitoring
lft : layer-four traceroute
nast : sniff in normal mode or in promiscuous mode the packets on a network interface and log it
nbtscan : A program for scanning networks for NetBIOS name information
netdiscover : active/passive network address scanner using arp requests
nload : realtime console network usage monitor
nsca : Nagios service monitor agent
nstreams : network streams - a tcpdump output analyzer
scanssh : get SSH server versions for an entire network
sntop : A curses-based utility that polls hosts to determine connectivity
ssldump : An SSLv3/TLS network protocol analyzer
tcpdump : A powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition
tcpreen : Simple TCP re-engineering tool
tcpreplay : Tool to replay saved tcpdump files at arbitrary speeds
tshark : network traffic analyzer - console version
doscan : port scanner for discovering services on large networks
dsniff : Various tools to sniff network traffic for cleartext insecurities
honeyd : Small daemon that creates virtual hosts simulating their services and behaviour
hping3 : Active Network Smashing Tool
icmpush : a tool that builds ICMP packets fully customized from command line
macchanger-gtk : utility for manipulating the MAC address of network interfaces
netpipe-tcp : A network performance tool using the TCP protocol
nmap : a utility for network exploration or security auditing
ndisc6 : IPv6 diagnostic tools
ngrep : grep for network traffic
p0f : Passive OS fingerprinting tool
packit : Network Injection and Capture
python-scapy : Packet generator/sniffer and network scanner/discovery
xprobe : allows you to determine what operating system is running on a remote host
fwanalog : firewall log-file report generator (using analog)
fwlogwatch : Firewall log analyzer
httping : ping-like program for http-requests
arping : sends IP and/or ARP pings (to the MAC address)
dnstracer : trace DNS queries to the source
netselect : speed tester for choosing a fast network server
dnsutils : Clients provided with BIND
adns-tools : Asynchronous-capable DNS client library and utilities
fping : sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts
wpasupplicant : client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)
wireless-tools : Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions
pppoeconf : configures PPPoE/ADSL connections
ndisgtk : graphical frontend for ndiswrapper (installation of Windows WiFi drivers)

network-manager-openvpn-gnome : network management framework (OpenVPN plugin GNOME GUI)
network-manager-vpnc-gnome : network management framework (VPNC plugin GNOME GUI)

[[ WORLD WIDE WEB ------------------------------------------------------
links2 : Web browser running in both graphics and text mode
wget : retrieves files from the web
w3m : WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
curl : Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or FTP server

[[ EDITORS -------------------------------------------------------------
vim : Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
emacs23-nox : The GNU Emacs editor (without X support)
mg : microscopic GNU Emacs-style editor
hexedit : view and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII
tweak : an efficient hex editor
nvi : 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi

[[ DEVELOPMENT ---------------------------------------------------------
geany : small and lightweight integrated development environment
build-essential : Informational list of build-essential packages
gdb : The GNU Debugger
gfortran : The GNU Fortran 95 compiler
gnat : The GNU Ada compiler
bin86 : 16-bit x86 assembler and loader
pstack : Display stack trace of a running process
stress : A tool to impose load on and stress test a computer system
crashme : Stress tests operating system stability

[[ GRAPHICS ------------------------------------------------------------
gpicview : lightweight image viewer
scrot : command line screen capture utility
gtk2-engines-pixbuf : Pixbuf-based theme for GTK+ 2.x

[[ FONTS ---------------------------------------------------------------
xfonts-terminus : Fixed-width fonts for fast reading

[[ CROSS PLATFORM ------------------------------------------------------
dosfstools : utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems
ntfs-3g : read-write NTFS driver for FUSE
ntfsprogs : tools for doing neat things in NTFS partitions from Linux
udftools : tools for UDF filesystems and DVD/CD-R(W) drives
mtools : Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
mscompress/msexpand : Microsoft "compress.exe/expand.exe" compatible (de)compressor
hfsplus : Tools to access HFS+ formatted volumes
hfsutils : Tools for reading and writing Macintosh volumes
genisoimage : Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem images
wodim : command line CD/DVD writing tool

[[ KERNEL AND MODULES --------------------------------------------------
squashfs-tools : Tool to create and append to squashfs filesystems
firmware-linux : Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel (metapackage)
firmware-linux-free : Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel (free)
firmware-linux-nonfree : Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel (nonfree)
atmel-firmware : Firmware for Atmel at76c50x wireless networking chips.
linux-wlan-ng-firmware : firmware files used by the linux-wlan-ng driver
bluez-firmware : Firmware for Bluetooth devices
libertas-firmware : Firmware for Marvell's libertas wireless chip series
firmware-qlogic : Binary firmware for QLogic IBA7220, QLA1xxx, ISP2xxx and SP2x2
firmware-bnx2 : Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtremeII
firmware-atheros : Binary firmware for Atheros wireless cards
firmware-ralink : Binary firmware for Ralink wireless cards
firmware-iwlwifi : Binary firmware for Intel Wireless 3945, 4965 and 5000-series cards
firmware-realtek : Binary firmware for Realtek wired and wireless network adapters
firmware-b43-installer : Installer package for firmware for the b43 driver

[[ MATHEMATICS ---------------------------------------------------------
rpncalc : RPN calculator trying to emulate an HP28S
dc : The GNU dc arbitrary precision reverse-polish calculator
bc : The GNU bc arbitrary precision calculator language

[[ INTERPRETED COMPUTER LANGUAGES --------------------------------------
expect : A program that can automate interactive applications
gawk : GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language

[[ WEB SERVERS ---------------------------------------------------------
thttpd : tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server

[[ SHELLS --------------------------------------------------------------
dash : POSIX-compliant shell
tcsh : TENEX C Shell, an enhanced version of Berkeley csh

[[ WORD PROCESSING -----------------------------------------------------
less : pager program similar to more
colordiff : tool to colorize 'diff' output
wdiff : Compares two files word by word
most : Pager program similar to more and less

[[ EMAIL ---------------------------------------------------------------
mailutils : GNU mailutils utilities for handling mail

[[ VIDEO SOFTWARE ------------------------------------------------------
aview : A high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player
dvd+rw-tools : dvd+rw-tools makes it possible to burn DVD images created by dvdauthor or genisoimage

[[ COMMUNICATION -------------------------------------------------------
minicom : friendly menu driven serial communication program
gkermit : A serial and network communications package
wvdial : PPP dialer with built-in intelligence

[[ DOCUMENTATION -------------------------------------------------------
manpages : Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system

download

get livarp-rescue on the dedicated page
livarp-rescue is distributed in ISO format (~624Mo), ready to put on a CD or used on a USBkey with unetbootin

utilisation

livarp-rescue starts with the syslinux menu. the default entry launches the 486 kernel (for old computers). choose the 'live 686' entry if your processor is modern (PIV or after).

livarp-rescue comes with 2 window-managers: a cli one (dvtm) and a gui one (dwm-6.1)

if you stay in tty, livarp launches dvtm after the cli-keyboard-selector. [h], [k] and [t] let you acces to the Help, Keys or Tools files.

if you lanch Xserver, dwm-6.1 starts after the gui-keyboard-selector

• menu is available on the top-left corner of your screen and is handled by fbpanel
• tablaunch is used as dock on bottom left of your screen
• livarp tools list is available from the menu entry 'livarp tools list' or from the 'tools' entry of the dock.

changelog

2013-01-18: adding memtest & hardinfo