About:
Timo's rescue CD set provides an easy way to generate bootable CDROMs with a ready-to-use rescue system on them. The system is designed to be fully customizable and easy to build. The rescue system includes reiserfs, parted, partimage, nmap, w3m, bash, sshd, telnetd, ftpd, and nfsd. It is based on Debian's "Sarge" release. LILO, syslinux, isolinux, and GRUB are supported. The project is evolving more and more into a "Debian on CD" project, which means that its use is not limited to a rescue CD; it is also possible to install a whole Debian system on CD.

Release focus: N/A

Changes:
The linuxrc script was cleaned up, the size of the initrd defaults now to 256k, _initrdfs.small was added (which is only 40k), the initrd is now a gzipped cramfs image, and cloop support was added.

Author:
Timo Benk [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.53/10.00 (5 votes)

Homepage:
http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/
Tar/BZ2:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/[..]/timos_rescue_cd_set-0.9.8_boot_disk.img
Changelog:
http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/CHANGELOG
Mailing list archive:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rescuecd-general

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		System :: Boot, System :: Operating System, System :: Software Distribution

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default Releases of the toolkit.	0.9.12r2	01-Jan-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)
bbc ISO Image Stripped-down ISO images to fit on one of those credit card sized CDRs.	0.9.3	24-Oct-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Boot Images	0.9.8	16-Apr-2003	GNU General Public License (GPL)
ISO Images Prebuilt rescue CD ISO images.	0.9.12r2	01-Jan-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
0.9.8	N/A	16-Apr-2003 14:06
0.9.7	Minor bugfixes	18-Mar-2003 07:23
0.9.6	N/A	13-Mar-2003 15:59
0.9.5	Major feature enhancements	05-Mar-2003 02:40
0.9.4	Major feature enhancements	11-Feb-2003 09:30
0.9.3	N/A	24-Oct-2002 13:07
0.9.2	Minor bugfixes	11-Aug-2002 10:31
0.9.1	Minor feature enhancements	02-Aug-2002 10:55

 Comments

[»] This Branch is Discontinued
by Timo Benk - Jun 12th 2004 13:03:38

The kernel is getting too big to fit on a single 1.44MB floppy disk, so this branch is discontinued.

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[»] Re: This Branch is Discontinued
by Timo Benk - Jun 21st 2004 07:01:30

I meant the Boot Images branch, of course. The project is still being under constant development.

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[»] branches
by Timo Benk - Nov 21st 2001 14:31:11

There are three branches:

Default - the main branch where new releases of the toolkit are announced
Boot Images - here are new releases of the 1.44MB boot disk image announced, which you can use to boot the rescue cd in case your bios does not support bootable cdroms
ISO Images - here are new releases of the prebuild rescuecd ISO image announced

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[»] ISO image password
by Timo Benk - Oct 2nd 2001 10:53:50

the password for the ISO image is "rescue".

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