SystemRescueCD 3.3.0
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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:
- 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.
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