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5.3 from 12 review(s)
Version: 8.05
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-10-30
Votes: 21
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I have given SystemRescue a score of 9 because I know that it is a distro that extensive in it's capabilities. It provides a large variety of Linux tools and configurability, to allow for an experienced Linux user or a person performing a role such as "Network Administrator" to accomplish tasks and fix problems that something like a "desktop" installer distro is not capable of. I understand that some users (and reviewers) find it not immediately intuitive or easily helpful and so might be inclined to give it a lower rating. As a Unix user since the mid 1980's and Linux user since version 0.2.13 of SystemRescue back in May 2004, I know, through successively using multiple versions of SystemRescue since, that is a tool that is well worth having on hand, worth persisting with, aids in continuing to learn more and more about Linux/Unix and has the capabilities to allow an experienced user to solve difficult problems or perform complex tasks. For those who might read this and think, “well, that is OK, he obviously knows what he is doing or is some kind of expert”, I would like to say that I am still “learning” and enjoying the reliability of this distro. Yes I do use a Linux desktop distro [MX Linux] as my preferred “daily driver” but I also still am a Windows user as well, since MS-DOS days. In summary, SystemRescue has indeed “rescue-ed” many PC’s that I have had placed before me and also rescued me from embarrassing situations more than once. Don’t badly review it, keep using it or just keep it on hand, one day you just might need it ... ! ;-)
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Version: 7.01
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-02-08
Votes: 0
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Wanted to configure a Raid Controller in preperation for a installation.
Booting worked, xserver started. As root... wtf.
Tried to execute megacli tools, nothing.
Took me 15 minutes just to search in pacman for packages, megacli, nada.
Ok, I heared of AUR, seems not to be enabled. Searched, gave trying to active this in a rescue system.
garbage, even a ubuntu installer is a better rescue system then this.
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Version: 7.01
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-02-04
Votes: 5
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Works!
I'd suggest putting a categorized list of commands for non-linux users. This was a powerful tool.
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Version: 7.01
Rating: 1
Date: 2020-11-26
Votes: 1
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absolutely bizarre "data rescue" distribution, cannot and will not mount any drive that isn't the flash drive it's installed on, tried on 3 separate computers and could not mount any hard drive or ssd
i guess if you want an xfce desktop with a firefox web browser and everything as root, this is the distro for you
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Version: 6.1.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-04-27
Votes: 8
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One of the most useful Linux projects out there, period.
And now that they have upgraded the look and feel of the Xfce desktop they boot you in, plus added sound support, it makes me seriously wish there was an easier and more straitghtforward way to install this awesome ISO on my harddisk!...
Anyway, through the years SRCD has never failed me, great set of tools, although it was until now more designed towards the slightly savvy and technically-oriented user.
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Version: 6.0.1
Rating: 2
Date: 2020-01-14
Votes: 4
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I've tried SystemRescueCD 6.0.5 (the latest version when I write this!) to make it start on different 64-bits machines, both BIOS and UEFI, but in all cases I got stuck in a kernel panic. In certain configurations I can imagine this sometimes happens. But on 4 different machines from 4 different brands and with 4 different kind of hardware? I'm an experienced Linux user, and I've run many distros since 2003. But I never encountered so much trouble into getting something to work.
Believe me, I've tried many times over. I checked the integrity of the ISO, I wrote it several times on different USB-sticks with the right methods (dd command). But no... it kept on failing to boot, whatever I tried! It first said, on every occasion when I tried to boot SRCD that /sbin/init did not exist, and left me with a command line. When trying to exit, it said something like: "I'm outta here, you're on your own".
I won't give it a 1, because I know the developer put a lot of effort into SystemRescueCD. But for now I just gave up after several tries. And I hope the developer gives SystemRescueCD a good file check. Because at this point SystemRescueCD won't rescue anything. I needs rescueing. :-(
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Version: 6.0.1
Rating: 3
Date: 2019-12-16
Votes: 0
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This was a valuable tool, with only one drawback — the use of Midnight Commander as a file manager. Who is familiar with that, unless they learnt computing with MSDOS? But now we only have a 64-bit version, despite the fact that surviving 32-bit computers are more likely to need its services. Luckily much of its functionality is available from Puppy Linux.
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Version: 6.0.1
Rating: 3
Date: 2019-02-13
Votes: 19
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5.3.2 was perfect and had a ~560MB image fitting on a CD. It was fine booting via PXE, NFS, TFTP, HTTP in a LAN.
But now we have a SystemRescueDVD image of ~890MB !!!
Is it the price to transition from Gentoo OpenRC to ArchLinux Systemd ?
It has been a real swiss army knife for many years but now it is sadly over for me.
5.3.2 should be forked.
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Version: 6.0.0
Rating: 6
Date: 2019-02-02
Votes: 0
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Not bad. Was hoping for more of a competitor to Knoppix or Parted Magic. This isn't it.
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Version: 6.0.0
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-02-02
Votes: 12
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This CD has been part of my last-ditch toolset for several years. Brilliant for the job of rescuing systems that are experiencing problems.
Two points on why my score for this is 5 and not 10:
1. systemd
2. 888MB - my planet is fresh out of 900MB CDs
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Version: 5.3.2
Rating: 5
Date: 2018-12-21
Votes: 0
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PXE booting of systemrescuecd is broken in the 5.3 series and no mechanism exists for reporting bugs, as the forum is locked.
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Version: 5.2.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-04-11
Votes: 8
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My favorite live system. I use it for all things desaster recovery and partitioning. Other projects may also be adequate, but SysRescCD is a very fine implementation of the whole concept.
Many regards to the developers, who deliver such a sublime package.
I do tech support for educational users with a team of ~35 people. Colleagues fluent on the console are "forced" to used SysRescCD. Nobody came up with a decent replacement convincing enough for the other team members in (minimum) the last 5 years.
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Latest Reviews
Project: SystemRescue
Version: 8.05
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-10-30
Votes: 21
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I have given SystemRescue a score of 9 because I know that it is a distro that extensive in it's capabilities. It provides a large variety of Linux tools and configurability, to allow for an experienced Linux user or a person performing a role such as "Network Administrator" to accomplish tasks and fix problems that something like a "desktop" installer distro is not capable of. I understand that some users (and reviewers) find it not immediately intuitive or easily helpful and so might be inclined to give it a lower rating. As a Unix user since the mid 1980's and Linux user since version 0.2.13 of SystemRescue back in May 2004, I know, through successively using multiple versions of SystemRescue since, that is a tool that is well worth having on hand, worth persisting with, aids in continuing to learn more and more about Linux/Unix and has the capabilities to allow an experienced user to solve difficult problems or perform complex tasks. For those who might read this and think, “well, that is OK, he obviously knows what he is doing or is some kind of expert”, I would like to say that I am still “learning” and enjoying the reliability of this distro. Yes I do use a Linux desktop distro [MX Linux] as my preferred “daily driver” but I also still am a Windows user as well, since MS-DOS days. In summary, SystemRescue has indeed “rescue-ed” many PC’s that I have had placed before me and also rescued me from embarrassing situations more than once. Don’t badly review it, keep using it or just keep it on hand, one day you just might need it ... ! ;-)
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Project: SystemRescue
Version: 7.01
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-02-08
Votes: 0
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Wanted to configure a Raid Controller in preperation for a installation.
Booting worked, xserver started. As root... wtf.
Tried to execute megacli tools, nothing.
Took me 15 minutes just to search in pacman for packages, megacli, nada.
Ok, I heared of AUR, seems not to be enabled. Searched, gave trying to active this in a rescue system.
garbage, even a ubuntu installer is a better rescue system then this.
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Project: SystemRescue
Version: 7.01
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-02-04
Votes: 5
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Works!
I'd suggest putting a categorized list of commands for non-linux users. This was a powerful tool.
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Project: SystemRescue
Version: 7.01
Rating: 1
Date: 2020-11-26
Votes: 1
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absolutely bizarre "data rescue" distribution, cannot and will not mount any drive that isn't the flash drive it's installed on, tried on 3 separate computers and could not mount any hard drive or ssd
i guess if you want an xfce desktop with a firefox web browser and everything as root, this is the distro for you
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Project: SystemRescue
Version: 6.1.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-04-27
Votes: 8
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One of the most useful Linux projects out there, period.
And now that they have upgraded the look and feel of the Xfce desktop they boot you in, plus added sound support, it makes me seriously wish there was an easier and more straitghtforward way to install this awesome ISO on my harddisk!...
Anyway, through the years SRCD has never failed me, great set of tools, although it was until now more designed towards the slightly savvy and technically-oriented user.
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Project: SystemRescue
Version: 6.0.1
Rating: 2
Date: 2020-01-14
Votes: 4
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I've tried SystemRescueCD 6.0.5 (the latest version when I write this!) to make it start on different 64-bits machines, both BIOS and UEFI, but in all cases I got stuck in a kernel panic. In certain configurations I can imagine this sometimes happens. But on 4 different machines from 4 different brands and with 4 different kind of hardware? I'm an experienced Linux user, and I've run many distros since 2003. But I never encountered so much trouble into getting something to work.
Believe me, I've tried many times over. I checked the integrity of the ISO, I wrote it several times on different USB-sticks with the right methods (dd command). But no... it kept on failing to boot, whatever I tried! It first said, on every occasion when I tried to boot SRCD that /sbin/init did not exist, and left me with a command line. When trying to exit, it said something like: "I'm outta here, you're on your own".
I won't give it a 1, because I know the developer put a lot of effort into SystemRescueCD. But for now I just gave up after several tries. And I hope the developer gives SystemRescueCD a good file check. Because at this point SystemRescueCD won't rescue anything. I needs rescueing. :-(
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Project: SystemRescue
Version: 6.0.1
Rating: 3
Date: 2019-12-16
Votes: 0
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This was a valuable tool, with only one drawback — the use of Midnight Commander as a file manager. Who is familiar with that, unless they learnt computing with MSDOS? But now we only have a 64-bit version, despite the fact that surviving 32-bit computers are more likely to need its services. Luckily much of its functionality is available from Puppy Linux.
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Project: SystemRescue
Version: 6.0.1
Rating: 3
Date: 2019-02-13
Votes: 19
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5.3.2 was perfect and had a ~560MB image fitting on a CD. It was fine booting via PXE, NFS, TFTP, HTTP in a LAN.
But now we have a SystemRescueDVD image of ~890MB !!!
Is it the price to transition from Gentoo OpenRC to ArchLinux Systemd ?
It has been a real swiss army knife for many years but now it is sadly over for me.
5.3.2 should be forked.
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Project: SystemRescue
Version: 6.0.0
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-02-02
Votes: 12
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This CD has been part of my last-ditch toolset for several years. Brilliant for the job of rescuing systems that are experiencing problems.
Two points on why my score for this is 5 and not 10:
1. systemd
2. 888MB - my planet is fresh out of 900MB CDs
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Project: SystemRescue
Version: 6.0.0
Rating: 6
Date: 2019-02-02
Votes: 0
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Not bad. Was hoping for more of a competitor to Knoppix or Parted Magic. This isn't it.
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Project: SystemRescue
Version: 5.3.2
Rating: 5
Date: 2018-12-21
Votes: 0
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PXE booting of systemrescuecd is broken in the 5.3 series and no mechanism exists for reporting bugs, as the forum is locked.
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Project: SystemRescue
Version: 5.2.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-04-11
Votes: 8
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My favorite live system. I use it for all things desaster recovery and partitioning. Other projects may also be adequate, but SysRescCD is a very fine implementation of the whole concept.
Many regards to the developers, who deliver such a sublime package.
I do tech support for educational users with a team of ~35 people. Colleagues fluent on the console are "forced" to used SysRescCD. Nobody came up with a decent replacement convincing enough for the other team members in (minimum) the last 5 years.
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