punkwalrus, 11 months ago

Maybe not the same, but a knoppix CD was part of my toolkit for field work for many years. Stuff I did with it:

• Retrieve or fix data from systems that could not boot.
• Scan systems infected with boot viruses (clamscan), and wipe entire drives if necessary
• Test various network issues: DHCP, DNS, tcpdump, and so on because Windows tools were pretty bad for a while
• Bypass various Windows restrictions on user’s systems