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Download and burning
Warning: You should download the system rescue disk ISO image with wget. That's a very simple and reliable download tool. Just type wget -c address in a console. If there is a problem with the download, try again with option -c, and it will continue. Wget was developed for linux, but there is also a win32 version of wget. Here is the direct download link.
SystemRescueCd is very easy to use. Just download the ISO file, and burn it. Under Linux, you just need cdrecord, and you can use Nero under Windows. When the CD-ROM is burned, you can boot it.
Burning the ISO image file: On linux you can use cdrecord. First, type cdrecord -scanbus in order to get the identifier numbers of your device. Then, type cdrecord dev=x,y,z -v systemrescuecd-x86-x.y.z.iso in a console. On Windows, you can use burning software such as Nero, or you can download ImgBurn which is free.
Installation on an USB stick
If you are interested in installing SystemRescueCd on an USB stick, you have to download the CD-ROM version of the rescue disk, and copy several files yourself, as explained in the manual. Thus, there is only one file to download for both CD-ROM and USB versions of SystemRescueCd.
Beta/unstable versions
Beta versions are available too. If you want to test the latest features/updates, or just need it, you can test next version and help us debug new features.
Online documentation
Reading the Quick Start Guide is recommended if it's the first time you use SystemRescueCd. It's also available in German, French, Spanish, Italian. You can also be interested in the Complete documentation for more details.
Download final stable version for i486/amd64 (default choice)
| Stable x86: | SystemRescueCd-x86-1.3.5 (243 MiB) |
| Release date: | 2010-01-25 |
| Download | Direct download URL |
| Download | Latest version (Changelog) |
| md5sum | 3b15f02f78375d1b9245c08a55c216de |
| sha1sum | fda49e44dfbce09271835122a77e690e073deaa1 |
| sha256sum | e56035ad0f08d4e1b1223b20d6bb79b3a9376e69d9513d580ff936f51f67fb77 |
You may also want to download old versions (download links and md5sum)
Download final stable version for SPARC (Sun architecture)
| Stable sparc: | SystemRescueCd-sparc-0.4.0 (83.1 MiB) |
| Release date: | 2007-09-30 |
| Download | Download now (Changelog) |
| md5sum | 74a319bada9e2888ebfff6dcfc925017 |
| sha1sum | 3019e97b44403550f21d391024bc062187ffa6c7 |
Testing the downloaded file
To check if the download was successful, you should check the MD5 checksum of the file. Type md5sum path/to/file. md5sum is available at md5deep. This is an improved version. Here are the binary for Win32, and the sources for Linux.
sha1sum is a more secure than md5sum to hash files. This program is a part of coreutils for linux and there is also sha1sum.exe for win32.
