Free nlite sata software for linux

mkinitramfs is intended to create the ultimate initramfs image.

mkinitramfs is designed to boot from any media (SATA, PATA, SCSI, USB, CD-ROM, etc.) without any changes being made to your disk.

However, it is very simple (about 400 lines of code).

srcat project can retrieve data from disks once used in a Coraid SR (SATA+RAID) appliance.
Enhancements:
- This initial alpha release retrieves data from disks that previously composed a clean RAID 5 in a Coraid SR.
- The retrieval takes place on a POSIX platform, independently of the SR unit.
- Support for RAID arrays missing disks and for levels besides RAID 5 has yet to be added.

Damn Small Linux Not is built on Damn Small Linux technology. Damn Small Linux Not is also small, bigger than DSL but smaller than most. Damn Small Linux Not provides a reliable, and compact array of applications based mostly on the GTK2 libraries.
DSL-N is not an evolution of DSL, it is not intended as progress over the philosophy of DSL, but is intended for a different user, or the same user under different circumstances.
Main features:
- it is small
- it has software which is feature full
- it takes advantage of redundant lib dependencies and suits to pack features into a tight distribution
- DSL-N has a modern kernel and does not squeeze out critical modules that would limit compatibility
Like DSL, DSL-n can:
- Boot from from a CD as a live Linux distribution (LiveCD)
- Boot from a USB pen drive
- Boot from within a host operating system (thats right, it can run *inside* Windows)
- Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"
- Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install
- Run fully in RAM
- Modularly grow -- DSL-N is highly extendable without the need to customize
- The applications in DSL-N were chosen because they are functional, usable, and relatively compact. Unlike DSL, DSL-N has GTK2 applications, that means DSL-N will need more ram and CPU cycles than DSL. To have a pleasant experience, we recommend at least 64MBs and 300MHz.
DSL-N, unlike DSL, does not have a hard size cap, but it is being developed by the DSL team, and we hate bloat! So, dont expect DSL-N to get too big.
Why are you making this offshoot of DSL when DSL is so successful? Because a 50MB, GTK2 based distribution, with a 2.6.x kernel and excellent hardware detection/support is a contradiction in terms. DSL-N represents our best effort to stay compact while providing for the needs of those who want the Bling Bling such as SATA support, Gnumeric, Abiword, gMplayer.
Enhancements:
- Added "noprompt noeject" to default boot options for frugal installs.
- Fixed madwifi wireless.
- Fixed chpasswd vs passwd. "secure" boot option now works correctly.
- Added gnu-utils into the base iso.
- Fixed USB2 not loading bug
- Improved mydsl=hdxy when specified to not also search this makes it consistent with restore boot option.
- Enhanced exitcheck to prompt warning if no backup device is selected when requested to save special settings.
- Fixed multi user hard drive install bug.
- Added murgaLua Lua/Fltk development toolkit.

Mounttero automatically mounts most storage devices such as USB drives and cameras, DVDs, CDROMs, hard disks, and floppies.

Devices are mounted when users opens their directory, such as /mnt/auto/cdrom, and are unmounted when the directory remains unused for four seconds.

Usage

For example, when user opens directory /mnt/auto/usb/, digital camera is automatically mounted and all the pictures shown in the directory. After four seconds of inactivity, device is unmounted and can be detached.

Manual Configuration

The rest of this document describes manual configuration of mounttero. If you installed the rpm, it did all this configuration automatically and you dont need manual configuration. The scripts below contain some latest and greatest version 0.5 improvements that have not made it to rpm yet, namely more usb partitions.

Create the directories used by the automounter. The directory is the one mentioned in /etc/auto.master:

# mkdir -p /mnt/auto/autofs

Create auto.master to tell autofs daemon that /mnt/auto/autofs directory is handled according to auto.tero

# /etc/auto.master
# mountpoint map options # see also: man 8 autofs
/mnt/auto/autofs /etc/auto.tero --timeout=4

List the actual mountpoints and devices in the automounter map

# /etc/auto.tero
# http://iki.fi/karvinen/linux/doc/automatic-mounting-autofs.html
# mountpoint_key options location_device # man 5 autofs
cdrom -fstype=auto,ro,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/cdrom
cdrom1 -fstype=auto,ro,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/cdrom1
usb -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sda1
# second and third partitions in usb device:
usb2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :dev/sda2
usb3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :dev/sda3
floppy -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/fd0

hda1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda1
hda2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda2
hda3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda3
hda4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda4

hdb1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdb1
hdb2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdb2
hdb3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdb3
hdb4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdb4

hdc1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdc1
hdc2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdc2
hdc3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdc3
hdc4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdc4

hdd1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdd1
hdd2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdd2
hdd3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdd3
hdd4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdd4

# Serial ATA (SATA) disks are IDE emulated in Linux 2.6
hde1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hde1
hde2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hde2
hde3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hde3
hde4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hde4

# (c) 2003, 2004-05-29, 2004-09-19 Tero.Karvinen atta iki.fi

# /etc/init.d/autofs restart

Now drives are automatically mounted when you try to access them. You can test it by inserting a cdrom, and cd /mnt/auto/autofs/cdrom. The CDROM is automatically mounted, and ls should show you contents of the cd. When you cd to another directory, such as home directory (cd), CDROM is umounted in four seconds and the eject button in the drive starts working.

To see which drives are mountable (have discs in drive), you can create symlinks (similar to shortcuts) to the mountpoints. You can create the symlinks manually for each drive, for example

# cd /mnt/auto/
# ln -s autofs/cdrom cdrom

Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a 100% free CD bootable Linux distribution aimed specifically at offline operations for Windows and Linux systems such as rescue, repair, password resets and cloning, with the ability to update itself.
It has custom tools to easily recover data such as deleted files, clone Windows installations over the network, perform antivirus sweeps with 2 different antivirus products, reset windows passwords, read AND write on NTFS partitions, edit
partition layout and much much more.
Trinity Rescue Kit 3.1 is the evolved version of 3.0 and a complete rewrite of version 1.1 and the unfinished 2.0. It s mostly based on Mandrake 10.2 (Mandriva 2005) binaries and heavily adapted startup scripts.
What s new since 3.0?
- self update capability: TRK now has a script that will download/search all non-GPL
licensed software, like the Microsoft ntfs
drivers or F-prot. It will also update antivirus definitions for F-prot and Clamav.
Afterwards, it will recreate itself as a new iso
file which you can burn again to CD
- new version of captive-ntfs, using the latest XP SP2 drivers and LUFS
- clamav 0.88-1
- mkisofs, cdrecord, pico, cfdisk
- eject CD (was bug in build 204) and powerdown on halt
What s new since 1.1 (and 2.0):
- more hardware support:
kernel 2.6.14.3 with most default options left on, so all important hardware like
disc controllers and network cards are supported, even SATA disks, USB storage and gigabit ethernet. Also patched with lufs (for ntfs support) and bootsplash (background graphics)
- better network capability: besides all common network client tools, you can also run a secure shell server for remote access or TRK to TRK file copies
- run completely from memory: provided you have at least 192Mb of ram, you can run TRK from memory and eject the CD once it has booted, giving you the ability to mount other CDs
- vesa framebuffer support: TRK now has limited graphical support thanks to kernel
builtin framebuffer support.
- qtparted: the famous PQMagic clone. Partition editing never been this easy thanks to the graphical interface this tool uses (via framebuffer)
- configure your LAN to be "TRK 3 compliant": you can change the way a TRK behaves by adding an otherwise unused parameter to your DHCP server to point to a webserver where you keep specific configuration data for your TRK such as proxy settings or complete scripts with which you can do anything you want
- run scripts from a local computer by searching for /.trk/trklocal.conf
- full NTFS write support thanks to the captive ntfs project by Jan Kratochvil.
- more NTFS write support with the NTFS Fuse driver.
- Secure Shell server: let a user boot from TRK, enter a new password for root and
connect to TRK remotely
Featuring home brewed scripts, new and improved:
- updatetrk (since 3.1): updates TRK with ntfs drivers, F-prot + definitions and
Clamav definitions. When the script is run without arguments, it looks for a Windows pagefile.sys, creates a loopback filesystem on it and creates TRK from there. Afterwards it copies the new isofile to C: emp, from where you can burn it to CD again
- clonexp: script that uses ntfsclone to perform copies of ntfs filesystems between
two computers each running their copy of Trinity Rescue Kit 3.1. One PC copies his Windows installation over the network to another PC running a TRK 3.1 with a secure shell server enabled. An easy way to clone Windows installations or recover as much as you can from a dying disk. Run it either interactively or from a single commandline
- winpass: does the same thing as in TRK 1.1, searches for all local Windows
installations, runs chntpw on your SAM file and resets the password. It now also handles Windows on FAT32 correctly and uses the safe ntfs driver from the Linux kernel, so it works even without captive support
- regedit: is actually the same as winpass, but starts chntpw in interactive mode and allows you to edit a Windows registry
- virusscan: completely rewritten,this script now has two different engines: the default is to run with the GNU Clamav antivirus which is free for everyone. This is a very good scanner, but the drawback is that it can only detect virus infected files, not clean them. So the only option is to delete them, where most of the time the file is the complete virus. But just to be sure we don t delete anything valuable, a quarantined backup is being made first. The other part of the script uses the free-for-home-users F-prot. F-prot itself is not included in TRK but it gets downloaded from their site. F-prot DOES have the ability to disinfect files if necessary.
- ntfsundeleteall: also completely rewritten, ntfsundeleteall, a wrapper for
ntfsundelete now recovers deleted files from an NTFS volume but it gives you the ability to add a recoverability percentage to the commandline. Since it only recovers files and not directories, sometimes you would have double filenames. This has been countered by adding the inode of the file at the beginning of the filename, so recoverability is 100% within the possibilities of ntfsundelete
More utils:
- links: simple webbrowser which runs in framebuffer graphical mode. Handy to go and read some reference docs on the Internet
- ftp and lftp
- ssh and scp
- ms-sys: This program is used to create Microsoft compatible boot records. It is able to do the same as Microsoft "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk. It is also able to do the same as Microsoft "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT partition except that it does not copy any system files, only the boot record is written.
- Reiserfs tools
- ext2/ext3 tools
- ntfsprogs
- dosfs tools
- tcpdump, nmap and netcat
- mdadm for offline raid configuration
- burn, a utility that stresses your CPU
- samba client: mount windows shares over the network
- shred: erase a harddisk until its unrecoverable even by magnetic resonance recovery
- fatback: undelete files from fat filesystems
- TestDisk: Tool to check and undelete partition, works with most common partitions
- PhotoRec: File and pictures recovery. PhotoRec has been created to recover pictures from digital camera memory and it has been extended to recover lost files from harddisk (List of known files). PhotoRec is safe to use, it will never attempt to write to the drive or memory support you are about to recover from. Recovered files are instead written in the directory from where you are running the PhotoRec program.
- pico text editor
- mkisofs and cdrecord
- perl 5
Enhancements:
- Very extensive and complete documentation.
- 2 more virus scan engines: Grisoft AVG and BitDefender.
- ntfs-3g has full and fast read/write support for NTFS drives.
- Bootable from a USB stick and over PXE.
- An integrated Samba file server.
- LVM support.
- Kernel 2.6.19.2 and hwdata 0.191-1.
- Menu-based graphical startup.
- Tools to migrate TRK from CD to USB and back to an ISO file if desired.
- Bridging capabilities.
- Full proxy server support: a script called "setproxy" can prompt you for your networks proxy parameters, allowing you to access the internet and update your TRK.

Linux Inventory Aggregator is designed to be a simple, self-contained (as much as possible) script for gathering hardware information.

Sample Output

In the first example, a stock Mandrake system is shown with a single processor, 386MB of memory, an attached SCSI disk array, and several internal IDE drives.

[rtwomey@gamma inventory]$ ./get_inventory.pl
Statistics of machine gamma
* 1 CPU: Pentium III (Coppermine) @ 863.955MHz
* Kernel: 2.6.11-6mdk #1 Tue Mar 22 16:04:32 CET 2005
* Memory total: 385668kB
* Hostname: gamma @ 192.168.1.3
* Network Interfaces:
lo: 127.0.0.1
eth0: 192.168.1.3
* Graphics card: nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro] (rev a3)
* Network controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
* Network controller: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
* Sound card: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
* SCSI card: QLogic Corp. ISP12160 Dual Channel Ultra3 SCSI Processor (rev 06)

Attached IDE disks:
* Disk hdg: size: 81964302336 bytes (81GB), model: Maxtor 4R080L0
* Disk hdf: size: 30900215808 bytes (30GB), model: Maxtor 93073U4
* Disk hde: size: 164696555520 bytes (164GB), model: HDS722516VLAT80
* Disk hdc: size: 123522416640 bytes (123GB), model: IC35L120AVV207-0
* Disk hdb: size: 120034123776 bytes (120GB), model: WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0
* Disk hda: size: 45191946240 bytes (45GB), model: IBM-DTLA-307045

Attached SCSI disks:
* Disk sda: SEAGATE ST318452LC (Channel: 00 ID: 08 Lun: 00)
* Disk sdb: SEAGATE ST318453LC (Channel: 00 ID: 09 Lun: 00)
* Disk sdc: SEAGATE ST336607LC (Channel: 01 ID: 08 Lun: 00)
* Disk sdd: SEAGATE ST336607LC (Channel: 01 ID: 09 Lun: 00)
* Disk sde: SEAGATE ST336607LC (Channel: 01 ID: 11 Lun: 00)
* Disk sdf: SEAGATE ST336607LC (Channel: 01 ID: 12 Lun: 00)
* Disk sdg: SEAGATE ST318453LC (Channel: 01 ID: 13 Lun: 00)
* Disk sdh: SEAGATE ST318452LC (Channel: 01 ID: 14 Lun: 00)

The second example illustrates a dual-processor Xeon system (note that HyperThreading causes the 2 processors to appear as 4):

[rtwomey@babbage inventory]# ./get_inventory.pl
Statistics of machine babbage
* 4 CPUs: CPU1 = Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz @ 2791.744MHz; CPU2 = Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz @ 2791.744MHz; CPU3 = Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz @ 2791.744MHz; CPU4 = Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz @ 2791.744MHz
* Kernel: 2.6.9-11.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri May 20 18:26:27 EDT 2005
* Memory total: 514484kB
* Hostname: babbage @ XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
* Network Interfaces:
lo: 127.0.0.1
eth0: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
* Network controller: Intel Corporation 82544GC Gigabit Ethernet Controller (LOM) (rev 02)
* SCSI card: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 07)
* SCSI card: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 07)
* Graphics card: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)

Attached SCSI disks:
* Disk sda: SEAGATE ST373307LC (Channel: 00 ID: 00 Lun: 00)
* Disk sdb: SEAGATE ST39103LC (Channel: 00 ID: 01 Lun: 00)
* Disk sdc: SEAGATE ST39204LC (Channel: 00 ID: 03 Lun: 00)
* Disk sdd: SEAGATE ST39204LC (Channel: 00 ID: 04 Lun: 00)

The third example illustrates an IDE CD-RW, as well as a SATA disk that is handled via the Linux sg driver:

[rtwomey@younger inventory]# ./get_inventory.pl
Statistics of machine younger
* 2 CPUs: CPU1 = Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz @ 2992.825MHz; CPU2 = Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz @ 2992.825MHz
* Kernel: 2.6.9-16.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Aug 15 20:06:02 EDT 2005
* Memory total: 1033192kB
* Hostname: younger @ XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
* Network Interfaces:
lo: 127.0.0.1
eth0: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
* Sound card: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
* Graphics card: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
* Network controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)

Attached IDE disks:
* CD-RW drive: HL-DT-ST CD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4482B

Attached SCSI disks:
* ATA ST340014AS (Channel: 00 ID: 00 Lun: 00)

SLAX is a small bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. SLAX distirbution runs Linux directly from the CD (or USB) without installing.
The Live CD described here is based on the Slackware Linux distribution and is downloadable from this website as an ISO image.
The primary goal of SLAX is to provide a wide collection of useful software while keeping the cds image small enough to be written to a 185 MB CD-R(W) medium (small 8 cm CD). SLAX boots directly from the CD or USB devices and it provides a full featured Linux operating system.
All your available partitions and data storage devices (CD-ROM, USB storage devices, etc.) should be recognized at boot and should be mounted to /mnt/xx. As an example, "disc0part1" may be assigned to the first partition on your primary hard drive, "disc1part1" for your USB storage device, or "cdrom0" for your CD-ROM drive. SLAX will never write anything to the mounted devices. Mounting is safe and does not change the data.
After booting, you should be able to login as a "root", with the password "toor"; both without quotes, of course.
When logged in, you have many options. At the shell prompt, you may start Midnight Commander (type "mc" to the console), play some music from your hard drive (type "play /mnt/path/file.mp3"), adjust your audio volume (type "alsamixer"), configure IP address (type "netconfig") or browse web pages with the text-based browser (type "lynx http://url").
To start the graphical environment included with SLAX, type "gui" (for graphical user interface). It will attempt to autoconfigure your graphics card, monitor, keyboard and mice, and if successful it will run an X session with KDE. Im pretty sure that you will know how to get around at this point. :-) Use "guisafe" instead of "gui" for safe-mode (VESA framebuffer) without autodetection.
In the unfortunate case your mouse doesnt work, try to move it for a few seconds to see if it will be autodetected. If it isnt, shut down Xwindow (press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace) and start it again. If this wont help then you are using something I have not included in the autoconfiguration process (COM2 mouse?). If you are comfortable with bash, or you atleast understand how to make your favorite mouse function under Linux, try to modify the symbolic link /dev/mouse manually.
If you dont like the autoconfigured screen resolution, refresh rate, or the K Desktop Environment, start "gui" with some additional options. Try for example "gui 800x600 60", where 800x600 is the desired screen resolution and 60 is the desired refresh rate. Fluxbox is one of the other window managers included and may be called with "guifast" or "gui fluxbox". In any event, type "gui --help" for more information.
All scripts and source code are available and can be used to build your own Live CD.
SLAX is available as an ISO image of the CD. It fits on small 8cm CD-R(W). Burn it with your favorite cd-writing software and then boot from the CD.
You might want to check your BIOS to assure its set to boot the CD prior the disc.
SLAX CD contains:
- Linux Kernel 2.4.28-pre4 with SATA support
- X.org 6.8.1
- KDE 3.3.1
- KOffice 1.3.3
- KDE games
- MPlayer 1.0pre5 with KPlayer
- kopete ICQ/AIM/Y!/IRC
- midnight commander
- rdesktop (rscp in KDE)
- hotplug support
- cdrtools
- k3b burning GUI for KDE
- mutt email client
- wget
- and much more...

PLoP Linux is a small distribution on a CD, DVD or USB flash drive / memory stick. PLoP Linux is designed to rescue data from a damaged system.
A antivirus is also in the package, view the feature list.
Main features:
- linux kernel is 2.6.13
- IDE, SATA, SCSI, and RAID support
- partimage to save or restore partitions
- proftpd server
- ssh connections
- samba connection
- nfs connection
- cryptsetup
- lot of network tools
- limited NTFS write support (see status new driver).
- clamav
- linux antivirus for windows from antivir personal edition.
- this antivirus is free for personal and non-commercial use only
- You need a generated key from the download page. Key generation is free for personal and non-commercial use.
- Network connections to windows network shares, ftp servers, web servers or ssh connections.
- Boot from cd, dvd or usb media
- Boot with floppy to usb, cd or dvd media
- supports wlan cards
- you can add you own windows tools in a seperated folder
- mp3blaster and mplayer are also there