BG-Rescue Linux


BG-Rescue Linux is a very small Linux distribution (download-size < 20MB) which is intended mainly for rescue purposes.


Features

The system runs entirely in ram and can be booted either from usb-stick or cdrom. It can be booted either on BIOS or UEFI hardware.
Besides i386 it also includes a 64bit Linux kernel generating the possibility to chroot into a 64bit (amd64) userspace environment.
The system can serve as a full rescue / backup / restore system for Linux or Windows based computers or
to facilitate the installation of a recent Debian oder Ubuntu Linux via debootstrap.

All the relevant major filesystems and many network cards are supported as well as mounting samba (cifs) and nfs shares over network.
A wide range of disk- and filesystem utilities as well as strong compression tools are integrated, including a 64bit version of lrzip.
Encrypted disks including LUKS are supported and there is limited BitLocker support.
A graphical frontend (ytree) is also included.


Rescue-Boot Mode

BG-Rescue Linux can also be used as an initramfs (initrd) image to boot virtually any amd64/i386 Linux system.
This feature can be useful in case of a failing boot loader. BG-Rescue Linux can serve its kernel and initramfs
to prepare and mount the system's root partition and finally to run init/systemd.


Please follow the link to the current release.

The following releases are online:

Please visit also our page at Sourceforge - BG-Rescue Linux.

Please visit also our page at Freecode - BG-Rescue Linux (stalled).



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