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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 can be used for both Linux and windows computers, and on desktops as well as servers. This rescue system requires no installation as it can be booted from a CD/DVD drive or USB stick, but it can be installed on the hard disk if you wish. The kernel supports all important file systems (ext2/ext3/ext4, reiserfs, btrfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs).
System and Networking Guides
In addition to the SystemRescueCd documentation 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: Cheap Linux DVD Quick start guide: please read this if this is the first time you are using this system recovery cd.
SystemRescueCd Chapters about basic usage: Ubuntu 15.10 Fedora 22 Downloading and burning: how to download and burn SystemRescueCd CentOS 7.1 Booting SystemRescueCd: the boot options you many want to use Debian 8.2 Starting to use the system: how to use SystemRescueCd when it's ready OpenSUSE 13.2 Network: configuration and programs: how to configure internet and the network Log in Linux Mint 17.2 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 Knoppix 7.4 Search see its files Site map System boot floppy disks: other low level system tools you may need (e.g.: memory tester) Chapters about advanced usage: Home download How to personalize SystemRescueCd: make a custom SystemRescueCd with your own modifications System tools or software Package-list How to install SystemRescueCd on a USB-stick: how to install SystemRescueCd on a USB stick Beta versions Easy install SystemRescueCd on harddisk: you can also boot SystemRescueCd directly from the Screenshots harddisk USB-stick install PXE network booting with SystemRescueCd: you can boot SystemRescueCd from the network Customization Run your own scripts at start-up with autorun: use SystemRescueCd to run your own scripts ChangeLog Manage remote windows or linux servers using SystemRescueCd: administrate remote servers Modules using SystemRescueCd Kernel Backup data from an unbootable Windows computer: backup your data if your windows is broken FAQ
Documentation System tools included
Manual in GNU Parted: creates, resizes, moves, copies partitions, and filesystems (and more). English GParted: GUI implementation using the GNU Parted library. Manual in Partimage: popular opensource disk image software which works at the disk block level German ddrescue: Attempts to make a copy of a partition or floppy/Hard Disk/CD/DVD that has hardware Manual in errors, optionally filling corresponding bad spots in input with user defined pattern in the copy. French FSArchiver: flexible archiver that can be used as both system and data recovery software Manual in File systems tools (for Linux and Windows filesystems): format, resize, and debug an existing Spanish partition of a hard disk Manual in Italian Ntfs3g: enables read/write access to MS Windows NTFS partitions. sfdisk: saves / restores partition table (and more). System Guides Test-disk: tool to check and undelete partition, supports reiserfs, ntfs, fat32, ext2/3 and many others PARTITIONING Memtest+: to test the memory of your computer (first thing to test when you have a crash or LVM2 GUIDE unexpected problems) NETWORKING 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 Quick start guide Project links Browse the short system tools page for more details about the most important software included. Quick start (EN) Forums Browse the detailed package list for a full list of the packages. Schnellstart (DE) Documentation Guide rapide (FR) Sourceforge Guía Rápida (ES) Mailing list Advanced uses Quick start (IT) Sparc edition Changes 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 Linux links need SystemRescueCd-1.1.0 or later. Notes specific to using speakup in SystemRescueCD are available on the speakup info page. fsarchiver partimage 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 and report bugs in the Forums. We will not answer emails about personal situations by email.
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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.
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