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A Live CD containing flashrom provides a user with a stable work environment to read, write and verify a flash device on any supported hardware.
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It can help avoid Linux installation issues, which can be a hassle for some users.
 
== Existing Live CDs with flashrom ==
 
flashrom is already shipped in the following Live CDs:
 
=== SystemRescueCd ===
 
* [http://www.sysresccd.org/Download SystemRescueCd-x86-2.2.1] (flashrom 0.9.3-r1205)
* [http://www.sysresccd.org/Beta-x86 SystemRescueCd-2.3.0-beta007] (flashrom 0.9.3-r1205)
 
=== grml ===
 
* [http://grml.org grml 2011.05] (flashrom 0.9.2+r1141-2)
 
Note: You need the regular grml ISO, the "medium" and "small" ISOs do not contain flashrom.
 
=== Parted Magic ===
 
* [http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads Parted Magic 6.7] (flashrom 0.9.4-r1394)
 
=== Hiren's BootCD ===
 
When you select "Linux based rescue environment (Parted Magic 6.1)" and then "Live with default settings" you have access to a system which has flashrom.
 
* [http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ Hiren's BootCD 14.0] (flashrom 0.9.2-r1141)
 
== Custom flashrom Live CD (obsolete, unmaintained) ==
 
This is a work in progress. The current beta ISO based on Debian may be downloaded here: [http://www.load2all.com/files/8672D1B2C/flashromlivecd-debian-0.1.iso.html Flashrom Live_CD-Debian-0.1]
 
Pre-built flashrom packages for various Linux distributions and scripts to build Flashrom Live-CDs are hosted at [http://code.google.com/p/flashrom-live-cd/ flashrom-live-cd].
 
=== Included software packages ===
 
* Linux kernel.
* Complete and automatic hardware detection, not requiring any driver to be added.
* Mounts $windows drive read only
* livecd/packages:
** acpid, av, binutils, bison, busybox, bzip2, cabextract, cpio, curl, cvs, dev-util/git, dhcpcd, diffutils, dmidecode, dosfstools, ethtool, flex, ftp, gdb, grep, hwsetup, iputils, iproute, irssi, joe, lftp, livecd-tools, links, lsof, lynx, lzma-utils, mdadm, minicom, nano, ngrep, ntfsprogs, openssh, openvpn, pciutils, picocom, pptpclient, quilt, rp-pppoe, screen, strace, subversion, tar, telnet-bsd, tftp-hpa, unrar, valgrind, vim, wget, wireless-tools, wpa_supplicant, xc, zip
 
=== Complete toolchain for ===
 
* [[flashrom]]
* [http://www.coreboot.org/Superiotool superiotool]
* lspci
 
Size of ISO-image is <185 MBytes. Small enough to fit on a flash drive or 3" CD-ROM.

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