I'm making a restore kit for Vista users (yeah.. with linux of all things.. lmao)..

It's basically going to be one single tiny bash script that does a couple of things - catch: I'm going to need to compile it with Captive-NTFS so I can actually write to the Vista partition.

Can anyone give me advice as to:
1) Best (aka tiniest, fastest, most reliable) Live CD to mod into this? Do I have to make my own seeing as all I want is a bash prompt, nothing more?
2) Best way to go about getting Captive-NTFS integrated into the Live CD *without* requiring the end user to do anything?

Many thanks LQ Experts!
-CG

I would say it depends on exactly what you want to do, but take a look at:

RIP
mkcdrec
System Rescue CD

I've used System Rescue CD & RIP to create & restore images of NTFS partitions.

Russ

Well, it would copy files from one directory on the NTFS partition to another directory.
It would delete some files, rename some things, and then reboot

In that case, RIP should do what you need. There is a version without X, which is about 33MB, leaving plenty of space for anything else you need.

From the README:

Russ