Sysresccd-versions

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There are several SystemRescueCd versions. This page try to help you to take to appropriate version.

About version 0.3.x

This is a major update over verisons 0.2.x. This new version comes with the XOrg graphical environment that allows running GParted. Several graphical programs have been added such as Firefox-2.0 (we may need browsing the web to find how to repair a system) and graphical editors (gvim and leafpad). This new release also provides ntfs3g-beta. It allows mounting an NTFS partition with a full read/write support, and replaces CaptiveNtfs. All the programs were updated, and several small network tools and utilities were added. The kernel comes with the Reiser4 support. The ISO file has almost the same size: around 120 MB (except version 0.3.0 that was bigger).

About version 0.4.x

SystemRescueCd-0.4.x adds three major features over version 0.3.8:

  • PXE Network booting
  • Support for amd64/em64t architecture (x86-64bits processors)
  • Support the the sparc architecture (Sun architecture)

About version 1.0.x/1.1.x

SystemRescueCd-1.0.x adds several major features over version 0.4.3:

  • Added Xvesa to fix problems with the graphical environment on some hardware
  • A processor >= i686 is not required anymore (programs are now compiled for i486)
  • Added a 64bits alternative kernel (altker64), and renamed vmlinuz2 to altker32.
  • Rewrote autorun with support of the http source (can execute scripts from http)
  • Improved the network boot process and options (features improvements and bug fixes)

About version 1.2.x

SystemRescueCd-1.2.x adds several major features over version 1.1.x:

  • New graphical environment: it's now based on xfce rather than jwm
  • New kernel: linux-2.6.29 replaces the 2.6.27 version, it supports more hardware
  • Updated Xorg-server to 1.5.3, glibc, and gcc to 3.3
  • Updated fsarchiver to 0.5.4 with a lot of bug fixes

About version 1.3.x

SystemRescueCd-1.3.x comes with more recent kernels and programs:

  • Standard kernel: linux-2.6.31 is the default kernel, it supports both btrfs and ext4 (recent code)
  • Alternative kernel: linux-2.6.27 is the alternative kernel for users who need a very good stability

You can browse the detailed list of packages included in the latest SystemRescueCd-x86 version.

About the manual

There is no off-line manual anymore. Now you should use the Online-Manual. English and French versions were updated, but the Spanish version is not yet.

Download links and md5sums for old versions

Requirements

SystemRescueCd 0.4.x requires an i686 processor or better and 128 MB of memory for default options (without docache). You need at least 292 MB of memory if you boot with the docache option. This option allows the system to load the contents of the CD into memory and eject the disc.

SystemRescueCd 1.0.x requires an i486 processor or better (it works on i486 and i586 as well as i686+) and 192 MB of memory for default options (without docache). You need at least 400 MB of memory if you boot with the docache option (this option allows the system to load the contents of the CD into memory and eject the disc.), or if you boot from the network via PXE.

Download old 0.2.19 version

You should never use this old version, even if you have an old computer (before i686), since version 1.0.0 reintroduced the suppot of the old i486 / i586 processors.

  • Download 0.2.19 version.
  • Md5sum: e15ae16d6a15444561a2cd730be356a4
  • Sha1sum: 786d8dbfc65cbb2ad77302f88afa75f6fa85a006
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