Tom's Root Boot Rescue Disk is avaible at
http://www.toms.net/rb/.
Create this floppy and a FAT floppy with a static version of testdisk
and the TermInfo file for linux terminal (usually found at /usr/share/terminfo/l/linux)
in a directory l/.
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /fl export TERM=linux export TERMINFO=. cd /fl ./testdisk_static /log
Because this second floppy filesystem is FAT, it's easy to get the log file generated by TestDisk.
You can try to use Paud floppy. It's based on a kernel 2.4.
http://paud.sourceforge.net/
I haven't finish it but you can find a script to create it at linux/testdisk_floppy.sh
Knoppix
is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware
detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB
devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX is shipped with an old version of
TestDisk but latest Linux static version under Knoppix run without problem.
TestDisk home: http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.html.
Christophe GRENIER grenier@cgsecurity.org