/ Andreas | System administrator /

One of my more useful tools, personally as well as professionally, is the LiveCD SystemRescueCd. Below you’ll find some of the reasons why I really like this rescue CD.

• It’s complete. SystemRescueCD containing pretty much everything you need to do diagnostics, rescue data, scan for viruses, etc. While none of the tools may be unique in any way, it’s nice to have them all conveniently gathered at your fingertips.
• It’s active. Currently SystemRescueCD is very actively developed. The part which I really like about that is the continues growth of supported hardware. After all, you never know what kind of computer you’ll have to rescue.
• It’s flexible. Not only does SystemRescueCD contain tools which makes it easy to modify the core squashfs image and to generate a new iso file. There’s also quite a lot of magic which can be done with boot options and various autorun scripts.

Of course, an actual CD is by no means the only way to start SystemRescueCD. Myself I usually boot it from either an usb-stick (syslinux) or from the network (pxelinux).