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I've repurposed a 32 GB M.2 SATA SSD as a bootable "USB stick" and I'm putting useful tools on it. So far I've got memtest, seatools, gparted live, system rescue, clonezilla, and a live install iso of the distro installed on my PC. What other great bootable tools am I sleeping on?

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[–] BuckShot686@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

UNetbootin could be cool, it'll provide access to mamy iso's instead of just one.

Distro's supported:

- Ubuntu
- Kubuntu
- Xubuntu
- Lubuntu
- Debian
- openSUSE
- Arch Linux
- Damn Small Linux
- SliTaz
- Linux Mint
- Zenwalk
- Slax
- Elive
- CentOS
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- 3CX
- Fedora
- PCLinuxOS
- Sabayon Linux
- Gentoo
- MEPIS
- LinuxConsole
- Frugalware Linux
- xPUD
- Puppy Linux

It can be used to load various system utilities too, such as:

- Parted Magic
- SystemRescueCD
- Super Grub Disk
- Dr.Web Antivirus
- F-Secure Rescue CD
- Kaspersky Rescue Disk
- Backtrack
- Ophcrack
- NTPasswd
- Gujin
- Smart Boot Manager
- FreeDOS