latest news about the sysresccd livecd
PXE network booting was a major feature added to SystemRescueCd-0.4.0. To get it to work, you need three network services:
dhcp server that sends a dynamic IP address and some parameters
tftp server that sends the bootloader and the kernel + ramdisk
http server that sends the compressed root filesystem (sysrcd.dat)
Some users complained because three different services were […]
Autorun has been rewritten in SystemRescueCd-1.0.0 (0.4.4-beta4 and newer). Autorun is the feature that allow you to execute your own scripts when sysresccd starts. The scripts can be copied in sysresccd by doing an customized version. They can also be copied from a partition on your harddisk / usb-key or downloaded from an NFS / […]
SystemRescueCd-1.0.0 comes with the support of the GPT disklabels (Guid Partition Table). The GPT disklabel is the new generation disklabel that aims to replace the very old msdos disklabel created with the first PCs. The GPT table is the default system on computer with EFI bios such as macintel and on itanium. Anyway you can […]
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.
You may […]
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 […]
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 […]
I am pleased to announce the SystemRescueCd-0.4.1 release.
The most important changes in that new version is the new kernel. This new kernel provides a better hardware so there must be less problems with drivers and less bugs that prevents the system to boot. It also comes with systems tools updates (ntfs-3g and parted), and […]
I released SystemRescueCd-0.4.1-beta5 (download link)
This version comes with an upgrade of GNU-Parted. The previous releases were based on parted-1.7.1 because there were problems with early parted-1.8.x versions. There were crashed with GParted and then I decided to keep version 1.7.1. Several months later I am making an new attempt to upgrade parted to 1.8. It […]
Thanks to user700512 in the forums there is a new way to boot SystemRescueCd. It’s now possible to boot SystemRescueCd from the Windows partition.
It has been possible to install SystemRescueCd on your hard disk for a long time but it was necessary to have a linux file system (a filesystem supported by lilo or grub). […]
The default kernel provided version 0.4.1-beta2 (and more recent versions) is brand new. It’s based on new patches and it has a new configuration. It now includes support for SMP and ACPI. This kernel should solve problems for users that were unable to boot SystemRescueCd. So if you had such problems you should give it […]
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