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Basically the title. I need a distro for a live boot that have both Gparted and Gnome-Disks-Utility preinstalled.

I know Ubuntu have it, but I'm afraid they'll remove it in the future, because of the slimmer ISO.

Plus, I'll prefer smaller ISO file, since it used only for liveboot.

Thanks for every comment.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you just looking for a partition editing tool? Rescuezilla ships with gparted and some other backup/rescue tools and boots from live usb though gnome disks isnt included if i remember. Gparted distributes its own live boot utility. You could also look into making a persistent live installation of ubuntu or other distro and have those installed and theyll remain on the disk.

Edit: Rescuezilla comes with gnome Disks so this may be what youre looking for

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do use Rescuezilla, so I'll might use only that. Thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not just used the official GParted livecd?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it have both of them? I honestly don't remember.

Thanks for the comment :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is a good point, the livecd doesn't even use Gnome, so it's unlikely it'll have Gnome Disks.

What is it that you're trying to do with Gnome Disks, if I may ask?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not OP, but I do find Gnome Disks to be rather useful for adding entries into fstab. It grabs the UUID for you and offers some easily configurable fields.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'll might need it for another tool, TYVM :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

you could use MXlinux and it's remaster tools/feature to build your own custom USB/iso.

MXlinux makes such a task rather easy.

remove stuff you don't need to get it as small as you desire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Live Kit may be what you are looking for. Haven’t tried this myself, but it looks straight forward. You basically turn an already installed system into a live distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, that's great. I'll definitely check this out. Tnx man :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you could install your favorite distro with all your customizations and needed programs on a flash drive and use that as a rescue system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I need it preinstalled to be independent of internet access.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I appreciate the comment!