There were important bugs in versions 0.4.0 /0.4.1 impacting the network booting via pxe. The DNS and default-router (gateway) options of the DHCP server were ignored by the PXE client. After the kernel is downloaded via TFTP and it finishes booting, the initramfs environment downloads the sysrcd.dat file that contains the whole system files.
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You may want to use SystemRescueCd to work on a remote machine. For instance you may want to use it for disaster recovery after a server crashed in a datacenter. In that case you want to ssh to the SystemRescueCd, but you can’t because you must first set the root password and configure the ip […]

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I just released SystemRescueCd-0.4.2-beta2. Here is the official changelog (between 0.4.1 - 0.4.2-beta2):

Updated the kernel to Linux-2.6.23.01 with Reiser4 (rescuecd + rescue64)
Updated the alternative kernel to Linux-2.6.22.12 with Reiser4 (vmlinuz2)
Updated sys-fs/ntfs3g to 1.1104
Added madwifi (support for ath5k wireless cards)

The madwifi support was added because this feature was requested in the forums:
http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1743
I also introduced the […]

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