Debian Rescue can be deployed to the RAM of a client system without impacting the on-disk contents and without running the native operating system.

 

MAC-Specific Debian Rescue

Click on the “Debian Rescue” radio button in the “Enable Provisioning upon Network Boot?” field:

 

The MAC-Spec Provisioning Role Dashboard will show the entry in green:

 

MAC-Independent Debian Rescue

Click “Add Ubuntu or Debian Role”, and select “Debian Rescue” from the drop-down:

 

 

The resulting entry on the menu will be as follows:

 

And the corresponding client-side menu will be:

 

 

Client-Side:

At the next boot, Debian Rescue (Debian Live + Clonezilla Live) will be loaded into RAM, and the “Enable Provisioning” will be automatically reset to “Ignore”.

 

The client system will display:

 

Use Clonezilla-Live to perform disk recovery operations: introduction step-by-step examples

 

Follow the instructions on the client system console to access Debian Live:

 

Access the remote system via ssh using ssh user@{client-ip} and the password debianrescue (this can be changed in the templates in tftpboot/templates/pxecfg/). For root access, use the command "sudo su -"

Password encryption: in /usr/local/linmin you will find the script linmin-bmp-encrypt-pw.sh for Linux password encryption of clear text passwords.