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 tools (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/ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, btrfs, 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 in SystemRescueCd.
[edit] News about SystemRescueCd-1.2
- new major release: SystemRescueCd-1.2.0 has been released
[edit] News about SystemRescueCd-1.1
- make the disc smaller: You can now uninstall the graphical tools to make a customized sysresccd disc which is smaller.
- advanced customization: You can now install new packages to SystemRescueCd by doing an advanced customization.
- kernel recompilation: There is a new documentation about building a customized SystemRescueCd with your own kernel
- backstore: It allows you to keep your changes when you reboot sysresccd
- nameif: It allows you to specify the name of each ethernet interface using the mac address.
- rsync tutorial: Here is a new documentation about how to use rsync
[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.
- FSArchiver flexible tool to save/restore a filesystem to a compressed archive.
- 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)
- 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.
[edit] 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, since the versions between 0.3.8 and 1.0.4 do not include speakup. We regret this inconvenience. 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 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
http://www.sysresccd.org/ "download"| License | GPL 2 (GNU General Public License) |
| State for x86 version | 1.2.0: 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 2.6.29.3 with ext4, reiser4, btrfs-0.18 |
| Build system | SystemRescueCd is built with Gentoo Catalyst-2.0 |
