System Rescue 1.5.6 i386 CD is a Gentoo-based live CD designed for data rescue and disk management tasks, comes with the brand-new version of GParted (0.6.0) and updated network card drivers. Its main features are updated standard kernels to 2.6.32.15 (rescuecd + rescue64) and alternative kernels to 2.6.34 (altker32 + altker64), updated GParted to 0.6.0 (support for devices with sectors greater than 512 bytes), updated xfsprogs to 3.1.2 (XFS file system userspace utilities), updated Ethernet network drivers in the standard kernels (tg3, bnx2x, e1000e), fixed problems with the tg3 Ethernet driver (mostly used by Broadcom cards), recompiled Parted so that it works on system with glibc before 2.11, improved usb_inst.sh (sysresccd USB installer script for Linux), added customization options to the sysresccd USB installer for windows, disabled isohybrid which breaks isoloop and which is not really necessary...

About System Rescuecd

SystemRescueCd is a Gentoo-based Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM or USB drive, designed for repairing a system and data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out administration tasks on a computer, such as creating and editing hard disk partitions. It contains many useful system utilities (GNU Parted, PartImage, FSTools) and some basic ones (editors, Midnight Commander, network tools). It aims to be very easy to use. The kernel of the system supports all of today's most important file systems, including ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, Reiser4FS, btrfs, XFS, JFS, VFAT, NTFS, ISO9660, as well as network file systems, such as Samba and NFS.