Rescue USB Creator

This bash script uses the Easy2Boot utility available here to create a bootable USB drive with several OS Distributions helpful for troubleshooting and restoring servers.

Current list of Distros:

• acronis-newacronis
• acronis_trueimage_home_2012_plus-ati
• clonezilla-live
• super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.02s9
• systemrescuecd-x86
• WinPE_Fixer

Resources Directory

Files here are used to customize E2B settings.

Using the script

git clone https://gogs.tfmm.co/tfmm/rescue-usb.git
cd rescue-usb 
chmod +x usbcreator.sh
sudo ./usbcreator.sh

The script will prompt for a device, like /dev/sdX. Please use caution here, as the script will then proceed to remove all partitions and data from the provided device.

How does it work?

The script downloads the previously mentioned Easy2Boot utility to create a bootable USB flash drive that can boot from any number of Live CD ISO files.

It then copies the ISOs to the _ISO/MAINMENU directory of the flash drive, these ISOs show up in the boot menu of the flash drive.

In order to make WinPE Fixer work correctly, we then mount the ISO, and pull the /tools directory off of it, and copy it to the root of the USB.

Then custom menu settings are copied to the drive.

Finally, the device is unmounted.