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Welcome to SystemRescueCd
Description: SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It is very easy to use: just boot the CDROM. The kernel supports most of the important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs).
[edit] Quick start Guide
If this is the first time you use SystemRescueCd, please read the Quick start guide (english)
[edit] Recent news about this project
You can find more details about the recent changes made in SystemRescueCd in the news section of this website. Below are the recent news that give you more details about the new features introduced since in SystemRescueCd-1.0.0.
[edit] Major features introduced in SystemRescueCd-1.0.x
- New option root=auto to boot the first linux system found on the hard-disk
- SystemRescueCd has been ported to unicode (utf8)
- Use SystemRescueCd remotely with VNC-server
- New boot options for advanced ethernet configuration
- How to use Xvesa when Xorg fails to start, so that you can always get the graphical environment to work.
- New chapter in the handbook that explains How to manage remote servers using SystemRescueCd
- The GPT disklabel is the new generation partition table that supports large disks (over 2TB) and more than four partitions.
- The autorun feature has been rewritten. It supports more options and scripts can be downloaded from an http web server.
- Network booting via PXE can download the
sysrcd.datfilesystem through TFTP as well as HTTP - SystemRescueCd-1.0.1 is now based on unionfs and it comes with JWM as the default windows mananager.
[edit] System tools included
- GNU Parted creates, resizes, moves, copies partitions, and filesystems (and more).
- GParted GUI implementation using the GNU Parted library.
- Partimage saves / restores partitions to an image file on another partition or to another system.
- File systems tools (e2fsprogs, reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs, xfsprogs, jfsutils, ntfsprogs, dosfstools): format, resize, and debug an existing partition of a hard disk
- Ntfs3g: enables read/write access to MS Windows NTFS partitions.
- sfdisk saves / restores partition table (and more).
- Test-disk tool to check and undelete partition, supports reiserfs, ntfs, fat32, ext2/3 and many others
- Network tools (Samba, NFS, ping, nslookup, ...)
Browse the short system tools page for more details about the most important software included.
Browse the detailed package list for a full list of the packages.
[edit] Advanced uses
SystemRescueCd is available for blind people. Now, the linux speakup version 1.5-2.0(CVS) screen reader is working well, and the speakup keymap is installed. This feature was tested by Gregory Nowak. Please note that current versions of the SystemRescueCD do not include speakup. The last version of SystemRescueCD to include speakup was 0.3.7. We apologize for this inconvenience. This information will be updated in the future as this situation changes. More information on this issue, as well as notes specific to using speakup in SystemRescueCD 0.3.7, is available on the speakup info page.
It is possible to make customize versions of the CD. For example, you can add your own scripts, to make an automatic restoration of the system. It's also possible to [[Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_burn_a_DVD_with_SystemRescue_and_4_GB_more_file s|burn a customized DVD]], with SystemRescueCd and 4.2 GB for your data (backup for example). Read the manual for more details. There is a new manual chapter that explains Ho w you can burn a DVD+RW from SystemRescueCd
It is very easy to install SystemRescueCd on an USB stick. That's very useful in case you can't boot from the CD drive. You just have to copy several files to the stick and run syslinux. The install process can be done from Linux or Windows. Follow instructions from the Manual for more details.
[edit] More information about this project
Please, ask questions in the Forums. We will not answers emails about personal situation by email.
You should subscribe to the announce mailing list if you want to receive an e-mail, when a new version is released. Since this list is moderated, spam is not possible. [low-traffic]
[edit] Detailed project informations
| License | GPL 2 (GNU General Public License) |
| State for x86 version | 1.0.4: stable |
| State for sparc version | 0.4.0: stable |
| State for PowerPC version | 0.2.0: unstable |
| Project leader: | Francois Dupoux |
| Major contributors: | Pierre Dorgueil, Franck Ladurelle and Isaiah Salinas |
| PowerPC version maintainer: | Daniel Biehle |
| Contact: | Contact us (the email address is protected by an anti-spam system) |
| Operating System | Linux 2.6.25.7 with Reiser4 |
| Build system | SystemRescueCd is built with Gentoo Catalyst-2.0 |
