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These small distros can have some surprisingly major uses.

The bootable rescue environment I reach for when systems won’t start.

The CDROM image was a firmware upgrade image from Dell (based on Linux). Mounting the image with iDRAC, it worked nicely. As one of the Servers had a dying iDRAC (Dell R320), I needed an USB stick.