Over time, studying and mastering the console in Linux a little, sometimes it becomes necessary to boot the system on another computer. The search for console mini-distributions did not bring good results, everyone encountered appeared to have an embedded X-server. The best option I managed to find is gentoo install-minimal. Who will help to find something better, with more or less new packages ... upd: debian netinst (http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#smallcd) (thanks plin2s and izen) upd2: Gentoo based SystemRescueCd (http://www.sysresresccd.org/Main_Page) (thanks to destym)