Q:

Remote-Accesible Live-Distribution (aka Live CD)

I'm looking for a live distribution (Live CD or the likes) which comes - per default - with sshd running at startup.
I want to check the components of my laptop whose graphics has died (card-replacement did not do the trick).
The system seems to boot into Knoppix 6 just right (and in typing commands w/o screen I can get it to shut down regularly) but what I need is a live distribution (CD/DVD/USB) which I can fire up and log (ssh) into over the network to check whether the CPU & memory is OK and if the new graphics card is ok too.
Anybody an idea?

A:

I came across the same problem. I decided build my own live linux (USB based). You can configure networking via syslinux.cfg on the usb stick.
It starts openSSH by default. It comes with nearly no functionality, appart from mounting a drive and chrooting the target system.
You can download it here if you still need it
http://heyn-it.de/index.php/ssh-rescue-linux.html

A:

I just tried Plop linux to boot a usb drive in an old desktop pc and when the ploplinux distro booted I noticed the sshd service.
After that I run the ifconfig to check the local ip and did a ssh connection from a remote laptop:
command:  ssh root@ipaddress 
password: ploplinux 

