http://www.sysresccd.org/news latest news about the sysresccd livecd Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:00:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been possible to install SystemRescueCd on a USB stick for a long time. There are several reasons for doing that: You can boot SystemRescueCd on a computer which has no CD/DVD drive It's easy to fit a USB stick in your pocket to have it with you all the times You ... http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2010/05/31/new-installers-to-run-systemrescuecd-from-a-usb-stick/ SystemRescueCd-1.5.1 has just been released. The boot process is now a lot faster thanks to OpenRC and to the reorganisation of system services. This important modification follows the complete rewrite of the initramfs which was achieved in SystemRescueCd-1.5.0. The initramfs is the compressed file (initram.igz) which is loaded just after the ... http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2010/03/28/improved-boot-process-in-systemrescuecd-15/ SystemRescueCd 1.4.0 introduces two new options that allow you to boot from NFS v3 or NBD. Basically, if the computer on which you work had no CDRom drive, or if you just want to boot SystemRescueCd from the network for any other reason, you can install network services somewhere else ... http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2010/02/28/systemrescuecd-can-now-boot-from-nfs-or-nbd/ SystemRescueCd-1.2.0 has just been released. It's a major release, so it comes with a new kernel version, new desktop environment, and update for important packages. First, the graphical environment has been updated. It's now based on Xorg-server-1.5.3, which improves the hardware support and comes with new drivers.  The desktop environment is ... http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2009/05/12/systemrescuecd-120-released/ SystemRescueCd comes with both console program and graphical software in order to provide all the software that the user may want. Anyway you may prefer to have just the console programs (file system and disk tools, network commands, editors, ...) and to have a disc which is a lot smaller. Unfortunately ... http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/11/17/make-systemrescuecd-smaller-by-removing-the-graphical-tools/ The ISO filesystem which was generate by genisoimage (from cdrkit) was working on most systems, but few computers just refused to boot from this ISO image. You can see messages from users who have been affected by this bug: http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2326 As a consequence, I just released SystemRescueCd-1.1.2 with a fix for that problem. ... http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/11/17/major-bug-in-sysresccd-111-may-make-the-disc-unbootable/ Rsync is an open source file synchronization program. It's multi platform, since it works on Linux, Unix and Windows with cygwin. It's a very advanced tool that can be used to make backups, or to copy files across the network. It can also be used to make disk-to-disk copies of ... http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/08/10/backup-and-transfer-your-data-using-rsync/ SystemRescueCd comes with four kernels which are rescuecd, rescue64 (standard kernels) and altker32, altker64 (alternative kernels). Anyway, you may want to compile your own linux kernel just because you need another driver, or you want more recent sources, or just different compilation options. A new tutorial has been written to explain ... http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/08/03/build-a-customized-systemrescuecd-with-your-own-kernel/ A new important feature has been added in SystemRescueCd-1.1.0-beta8. It's now possible to add your own packages to SystemRescueCd using the Gentoo-Linux package management system (SystemRescueCd is based on Gentoo). The development tools (gcc, automake, autoconf, ...) and the Gentoo-Linux package management tools (emerge, equery, ...) have been added to recent ... http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/07/27/customize-systemrescuecd-and-add-your-own-packages/ SystemRescueCd is based on a read-only compressed filesystem. All the files of the system are stored in a squashfs filesystem which is stored in sysrcd.dat. As a consequence, all the changes you make on the system are not saved, and they are lost when you reboot (except what you do ... http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/06/29/creating-a-backing-store-to-keep-your-modifications-in-sysresccd/