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  • great
  • I use it a lot. As a standalone I can use it to check setting on many of Linux machines when they act up. Necessary tool for anyone using PCs or Laptops.
  • I have been happily using systemrescue 4.08 for years I decided to upgrade and make a rescue stick with a separate partition for my own use. I am working on a Mint-20.2 system on an HP Pavilion g4 laptop. I downloaded systemrescue-9.01-amd64.iso and two hash files and a sig file from the systemrescue site. I checked the two hash numbers and the signature, all OK. I followed the directions in the "Installing systemrescue on a usb stick" page, under "Manual installation on Linux for booting in UEFI mode". The USB stick is 4G. I used gparted to create a MSDOS MBR. I created the first partition as 2G, FAT32, label=RESCUE901. I set the boot and lba flags. I created a second partition, the rest of the drive, ext4, label=RESCUEWORK. I opened systemrescue-9.01-amd64.iso using "Disk Image Mounter". I selected everything in the root directory (six directories) and dragged them into the root of the stick. I ejected the stick, then tried to boot it. The boot process hung with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner of a blank screen. By the way, I used usbimager to create the same physical USB stick and it works fine. It's a pity the IOS partition consumes all of the stick. If it left room for a second partition the problem would be solved. I thought maybe gparted could shrink the ISO partition, but it does not not me try. I am stuck at this point. Anyone now what I have to do?
  • The current 64-bit versions, 8.0x, do not fit on a CD. "It is highly recommended to use the 64bit version (amd64)", they say, but when something calls itself System Rescue *CD* it is sloppy to build an ISO that can not be used on CD. That really does not inspire confidence.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • On board there is a browser, gparted and ... nothing. It will not even get access to the NTFS disk.
  • As Karl Maulden used to say, "Don't leave home without it." So I follow Karl's advice and keep a USB stick (and a CDROM) copy of SystemRescueCd in my car at all times. That way, whenever I find a computer for sale at a yard sale or in a store, I can use the copy to quickly assess its working condition and its internals (drives, video, BIOS, etc.) before purchasing a "cat-in-the-bag." It saves time and MONEY.
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  • As of 7/22/2020 the checksums do not match the release. Please fix asap!
  • Once SystemRescueCd saved me on USB, I pray for this project.
  • THE BEST! Finally a turning point in System Rescue CD development! The 6.0.0 version is stunning and shows that this project is alive and the SysRescCD is still one of the best (it's my favorite) admin tools around. This version is now based on Arch instead of Gentoo and here we can find all the software updated to the last version: Updated kernel to Long-Term-Supported linux-4.19.19 ddrescue 1.23 partclone 3.11 fsarchiver 0.8.5 gparted 0.33 firefox 65 and many more. 32 bit has been dropped and now it works on 64 bit only (for 32 bit you can still use the 5.3.2 version). A "second birth" for System Rescue CD! Thank you!
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • Amazing collection of tools in a small package. I always have a partition reserved for SystemRescueCd on my key chain thumb drive. However, the 6.0.0 release is now based on Arch Linux (which is great), but the installation procedure also changed. The documentation seems out of date. I used to use `./usb_inst.sh` to format the partition, copy the new files and make the partition bootable. But I can't find any installation scripts anymore. How to proceed? EDIT: I see that the documentation has been updated now, thanks!
  • Rated 5 stars but have an issue in that there is NO WAY to report bugs on the projects main site. Your "contact us" link does not lead to any way to leave a message and there is absolutely NO WAY to register on the forums. This tells me you dont care one iota for what people have to say, even when its a BUG REPORT. BUG REPORT-> When installing Gentoo using the system rescue cd the numpy ebuild will not build after doing the chroot into the extracted base system. Numpy it seem will not build under zsh and even doing chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash and switching in to bash the SHELL environment variable still says /bin/zsh. WHO THE HELL uses zsh anyway? It took me 5 days to find out that all i needed to do was export SHELL=/bin/bash and numpy would build. While this is technically not a system rescue cd bug EVERYONE uses /bin/bash and so should the system rescue cd. The only reason I can see for it using zsh is for the same reason you use that putrid yellow background in your x terminal... i.e. just to be different! Please consider switching to using a SANE shell? Also, please consider enabling bug reporting SOMEWHERE??? ty
  • Saved my a** yesterday, when I did an mkfs on the wrong disk. Restored from backup without much trouble.
  • I use it for years and it helped me a lot. It's great that project did not fall for a fashionable but conceptually bad systemd and it uses a stable init. Great Thanks! Franta Hanzlik
  • How sad that I can no longer use it: I can only successfully load the graphical boot environment, which is useless for repair and recovery tasks. Trying to load the default grub item got me as far as trying to load the kernel, where it just hangs. Yes, I assumed I had created a coaster, and so wasted another disc making a second copy that performed just as disappointingly. Thankfully there's still a diehard group maintaining Hiren's CD, so I'm downloading that now.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Hi, I try to use the systemrescue cd on my systems where is something needed to do, and its a great application but it has a big resolution bug and there isn't any forum (closed - doesn't accept new users) or support. Always when I need to start the graphic system on machines with build in graphic then i have OUT of RANGE resolution on monitors. In the latest PC was it an old ATI RageXL with 8MB Ram. Then is the system unusable... Please open an support or forums to help people. Thanks.
  • Looks like a nice and very versatile tool! Please update nwipe, as the included 0.21 version has some severe known issues that are resolved in the current version. Thanks!
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Ver 6 seems to have removed zerofree. And I'd ask on the forums but you need to login and there is no signup link?! Sent a DM and zerofree is being added back which is great and was super responsive when I mentioned it. This project is invaluable to me. I've used it to clone the partitions on one drive to another, to fix a broken grub boot, and to run zerofree on my Virtualbox VM partitions so that I can compact them.
  • great software to restore a system on a different filesystem/hard disk using tools like Disk Archive - dar
  • A tool that any decent systems administrator should have.
  • great
  • The best bootable Gentoo Linux there is. Works perfectly fine with both legacy BIOS and UEFI. Whenever I have to maintain/install a machine, sysresccd on USB is my choice. ... for years now...
  • Still having trouble using SysRescue CD v4.9.5 and even earlier 4.4.0 booting an old AMD K6 1Ghz 32 bit machine. Tried boot option edd=off still hangs right after "Loading initram.igz" Funny a much older version of SysResCD v 1.58 seems to work fine Why is this ? Thanks
  • Please add VeraCrypt to the featured software! Writing this here as apparently no new registrations are allowed in the forum. Also could you please open a discussion board here (especially if you have closed forums)?
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Outstanding workhorse, must-have in the hands of any administrator
  • Superb collections to access any computer system by booting from CD or USB Drive. When a system is in trouble boot using systemrescuecd and fix it.
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