BG-Rescue Linux
BG-Rescue Linux is a Busybox and uClibc-based rescue system with a 2.4 series Linux kernel. It supports full read/write support for NTFS using ntfs-3g. It is loaded from two floppy disks, a bootable CD-Rom, or a USB Stick. The system runs entirely in RAM. It supports a wide range of hardware (including SATA and DM/LVM2) and filesystems (including ext2/3, hfs/hfs+, and xfs) and can serve as a full backup/restore system for MS Windows systems which use FAT12/16/32 or NTFS. It also includes many utilities, including strong compresstion tools like lrzip. Automatic loading of the antivirus-program F-Prot from cdrom or usbstick is supported.
| Tags | Operating Systems Linux Distributions CD-Based Floppy-Based Utilities usb boot rescue |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
Recent releases
- 04 Dec 2011 18:18
Release Notes: This release adds support for booting from a USB stick. Therefore, it is possible to use BG-Rescue Linux to boot either from 2 floppy disks, 1 CD, or 1 USB stick. Integration of F-Prot antivirus is now compatible with the latest release. Busybox, dosfstools, ntfs-3g, and lrzip have been updated to the latest available releases.
- 15 Jun 2011 11:01
Release Notes: This release upgrades busybox to 1.18.4, lrzip to 0.571, ms-sys to 2.2.1, and ntfs-3g to 2011.1.15. The eltorito-boot mechanism of the bootable ISO-image was altered so that it should work on more middle-aged laptops.
- 01 Jan 2011 06:21
Release Notes: This release upgraded the Linux kernel to 2.4.37.11, BusyBox to 1.18.1, dosfstools to 3.0.11, e2fsprogs to 1.41.14, and lrzip to 0.551.
- 30 Nov 2010 16:07
Release Notes: uClibc was updated to 0.9.31 and gcc was updated to 4.2.1. The Linux kernel, busybox, dosfstools, lrzip, and ntfs-3g were updated to the most recent releases. HIGHMEM support was added to make full use of all available RAM when using lrzip 0.543. PCMCIA and umsdos support were dropped.
- 02 Nov 2010 16:05
Release Notes: Major parts of the system were updated. Support is included for DeviceMapper/LVM2, ACPI, and HFS/HFS+. lrzip, the great compression program for big files, is now included. Swiss keyboard layouts were added.
Recent comments
Great tool!
I just used this to recover a deleted Outlook file. Excellent distro, great tools...it's staying in my CD binder!
RescueLinux with Xpde ?
Has anyone tried Xpde (a MS XPlike windowing system) on this RescueLinux?
How did they work together?
How did you launch xpde while in Rescue ?
Evaluation of the project
I had tried it two releases ago or so, and i've just dowloaded the latest.
The one I used worked quite fine, it was a comprehensive rescue utility.
I'm eager to try the latest one.
I have an only suggestion, inclusion of parted in order to resize, move partitions, etc.
Thank you for your work.
Re: More keyboard layouts
> Great rescue bootdisks, but I think it
> lacks of proper keyboard layouts.
Thank You for Your comment. You are definitely right.
In reply I added many new keyboard layouts.
The new release 0.3.1 contains 30 keyboard layouts.
Bodo
More keyboard layouts
Great rescue bootdisks, but I think it lacks of proper keyboard layouts.
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