Saturday, August 18, 2012
SystemRescueCd ( Rescuer Linux )
SystemRescueCd is a GNU / Linux bootable from cdrom for repairing your system and recover your data after a failure. It aims to provide an easy way to perform administrative tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions on your hard disk. It contains many system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). The goal is very easy to use: just boot from cdrom and you can do everything. The kernel of the system supports most important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), and network ones (samba and nfs).
These are the main tools of the system:
GNU Party is the best tool to edit the partitions on your hard drive in Linux.
GParted is a Partition Magic clone for Linux.
Partimage is a clone of Ghost / Drive-image for Linux
Tools filesystems (e2fsprogs, reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs, xfsprogs, jfsutils, ntfsprogs, dosfstools): allow you to format, resize, debug an existing partition on your hard drive.
Sfdisk lets you backup and restore your partition table
SystemRescueCd is also available for the blind. Now, the screen reader version 1.5 linux speakup is working well, and the reader's keypad is installed speakup. This function was tested by Gregory Nowak.
You can make custom versions of the disc. For example, you can add your own scripts to perform an Automated System Recovery. You can also burn a customized DVD with SystemRescueCd and 4.2 GB for your data (backup, for example). Read the manual for details.
Very easy to install SystemRescueCd on an USB pendrive. This is handy if you can not boot from the CD. You just have to copy multiple files to USB stick and run syslinux. The installation process can be done from Linux or Windows. Follow the manual instrucciones for details.
SystemRescueCD