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| Name | Modified | Size | Downloads / Week |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.0.0 | 2021-12-30 | ||
| 8.1.1 | 2020-11-18 | ||
| 8.1.0 | 2020-11-14 | ||
| 8.0.0 | 2020-06-30 | ||
| 7.2.0 | 2020-01-12 | ||
| 7.1.0 | 2020-01-03 | ||
| 7.0.0 | 2019-11-10 | ||
| README.txt | 2021-12-30 | 1.3 kB | |
| Totals: 8 Items | 1.3 kB | 5 |
BG-Rescue Linux BG-Rescue Linux is a very small Linux distribution (download-size < 20MB) which is intended mainly for rescue purposes. Features The system runs entirely in ram and can be booted either from usb-stick or cdrom. It can be booted either on BIOS or UEFI hardware. Besides i386 it also includes a 64bit Linux kernel generating the possibility to chroot into a 64bit (amd64) userspace environment. The system can serve as a full rescue / backup / restore system for Linux or Windows based computers or to facilitate the installation of a recent Debian oder Ubuntu Linux via debootstrap. All the relevant major filesystems and many network cards are supported as well as mounting samba (cifs) and nfs shares over network. A wide range of disk- and filesystem utilities as well as strong compression tools are integrated, including a 64bit version of lrzip. Encrypted disks including LUKS are supported and there is limited BitLocker support. A graphical frontend (ytree) is also included. Rescue-Boot Mode BG-Rescue Linux can also be used as an initramfs (initrd) image to boot virtually any amd64/i386 Linux system. This feature can be useful in case of a failing boot loader. BG-Rescue Linux can serve its kernel and initramfs to prepare and mount the system's root partition and finally to run init/systemd.