SystemRescueCd

About SystemRescueCd

Description: SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and 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 hard disk partitions. It comes with a lot of linux software such as system tools (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It requires no installation. It can be used on linux servers, linux desktops or windows boxes. The kernel supports the important file systems (ext2/ext3/ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, btrfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs).

System and Networking Guides

In addition to documentation on System Rescue CD.

Here are other related guides:

• Disk Partitioning: Introduction, attributes, tools, GPT disks, How Grub boots, How to repair Grub
• LVM Volume-Manager: Overview, How it works, Booting, Rootfs on LVM, Snapshots and Backups
• Networking on Linux: network configuration, advanced routing, dport routing, load balancing

Project documentation

This project comes with good documentation. Here are the most important chapters:

For the impatient:

• Quick start guide: please read this if this is the first time you are using this system recovery cd.

Chapters about basic usage:

• Downloading and burning: how to download and burn SystemRescueCd
• Booting SystemRescueCd: the boot options you many want to use
• Starting to use the system: how to use SystemRescueCd when it's ready
• Network: configuration and programs: how to configure internet and the network
• System software: description of the linux software which is available on this disc
• Mounting an NTFS partition with full Read-Write support: how to mount your windows partition to see its files
• System boot floppy disks: other low level system tools you may need (e.g.: memory tester)

Chapters about advanced usage:

• How to personalize SystemRescueCd: make a custom SystemRescueCd with your own modifications or software
• How to install SystemRescueCd on a USB-stick: how to install SystemRescueCd on a USB stick
• Easy install SystemRescueCd on harddisk: you can also boot SystemRescueCd directly from the harddisk
• PXE network booting with SystemRescueCd: you can boot SystemRescueCd from the network
• Run your own scripts at start-up with autorun: use SystemRescueCd to run your own scripts
• Manage remote windows or linux servers using SystemRescueCd: administrate remote servers using SystemRescueCd
• Backup data from an unbootable Windows computer: backup your data if your windows is broken

System tools included

• GNU Parted: creates, resizes, moves, copies partitions, and filesystems (and more).
• GParted: GUI implementation using the GNU Parted library.
• Partimage: popular opensource disk image software which works at the disk block level
• ddrescue: Attempts to make a copy of a partition or floppy/Hard Disk/CD/DVD that has hardware errors, optionally filling corresponding bad spots in input with user defined pattern in the copy.
• FSArchiver: flexible archiver that can be used as both system and data recovery software
• File systems tools (for Linux and Windows filesystems): 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
• Memtest+: to test the memory of your computer (first thing to test when you have a crash or unexpected problems)
• Rsync: very-efficient and reliable program that can be used for remote backups.
• Network tools (Samba, NFS, ping, nslookup, ...): to backup your data across the network

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.

Advanced uses

SystemRescueCd is available for blind people. Now, the linux speakup screen reader is working well, and the speakup keymap is installed. This feature was tested by Gregory Nowak. Please note that you need SystemRescueCd-1.1.0 or later. Notes specific to using speakup in SystemRescueCD are available on the speakup info page.

It is possible to make customized 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 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 How you can burn a DVD+RW from SystemRescueCd

You can use SystemRescueCd to backup data from an unbootable Windows computer, if you want to backup the data stored on a Windows computer that cannot boot any more.

It is very easy to install SystemRescueCd on a 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.

More information about this project

Please, ask questions in the Forums. We will not answer emails about personal situations 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]

SystemRescueCd is licensed under the GPL-2 license. You can contact us (the email address is protected by an anti-spam system) but please use the forums for technical and general questions.

Go there...
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

Download and Writing CD

SystemRescueCD is very easy to run. Just download the ISO file, write it to a CDROM, and boot it.

See the link below to download with your favorite browser or download the SystemRescueCD ISO image with wget, a simple and reliable download tool.

Type wget -c address in a console. If there is a problem with the download, try again with -c, and it will continue. Here is a win32 version of wget .

Download final stable version for i486/amd64 (default choice)

Stable x86:	SystemRescueCd-x86-1.6.2 (274 MiB)
Release date:	2010-10-11
Download	Sourceforge download
Changelog	Changelog for x86
md5sum	b7662eb44b530d62c487dd367f2036ed
sha1sum	6aa079d9ab05e4c69fcd9e7af3e04df010237b37
sha256sum	f0b4ce61b433ecf059449a7e4c82b2611d579e0f9308d2fded7f12615d880e2e

You may also want to download old versions (download links and md5sum)

Go there...
http://www.sysresccd.org/Download

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