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The Lubuntu 17.04 Desktop/Live CD(ISO) is missing the package: net-tools[1]
It's troubling to find a LiveCD today that does not have something as simple as netstat and other important tools available.
It's also quite pathetic to discover the recent Debian LiveCDs are missing UFW[2].
[1] "This package includes the important tools for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel. This includes arp, ifconfig, netstat, rarp, nameif and route."
[2] "The Uncomplicated FireWall is a front-end for iptables, to make managing a Netfilter firewall easier. It provides a command line interface with syntax similar to OpenBSD's Packet Filter. It is particularly well-suited as a host-based firewall."
[Ed note: Assuming one has an internet connection, can't one just do something along the lines of apt-get $package_name to fill in what is missing? Is this just whining on the part of the submitter or an actual shortcoming? What are your thoughts on this?]
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday June 12 2017, @02:16PM (1 child)
Gah.. I had USB on my mind when I started writing that post. Oh well ;)
Well USB can provide CDrom, floppy, flash memory, network etc. So yeah it's a real option. The catch may be that support may not be there, BIOS don't want to boot it or that it's USB1 which means really slow.
As for virtualization. Those systems pretty much rely on there being a system to start with? So that host OS should be able to serve whatever is needed to get the job done?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 12 2017, @03:12PM
Yeah it would be pretty hard to find a situation messed up enough that all that doesn't work is the network but it still boots outside of R+D experiments making a new "gold" template for deployment.
Maybe if you're running vmware and something absolutely horrendous happened to vmware-tools... maybe.
Most of the time I'd spin up a new whatever it is, attach the dead old virtual hard drive to the new image and copy any data over that I need, assuming there is any.
Sometimes its fun to do dumb virtualization tricks purely for fun and instead of running modern OS try to get win2K to boot or try to get msdos installed and sometimes you can get wedged into weird situations.