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BG-Rescue Linux

BG-Rescue Linux is a Busybox and uClibc-based rescue system with a 2.4 series Linux kernel. It supports full read/write support for NTFS using ntfs-3g and limited but fast NTFS support using the NTFS 2.1.6b kernel driver. It is loaded either from two floppy disks or from one 2.8MB El Torito CD. The system runs entirely in RAM. It supports a wide range of hardware (including SATA) and filesystems (including ext2/3 and xfs) and can serve as a full backup/restore system for MS Windows systems that use FAT12/16/32 or NTFS. It also includes many utilities.

Tags	Operating Systems Linux Distributions CD-Based Floppy-Based Recovery Tools Utilities
Operating Systems	POSIX Linux

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0.9.1

02 Apr 2008 09:20

Changes: ntfs-3g 1.2310 was added, which is a much more stable ntfs read-write driver than ntfsmount with fewer dependencies. Therefore, ntfsmount was removed, along with the now unneeded FUSE userspace tools. Busybox was updated to 1.9.2 and e2fsprogs was updated to 1.40.7. linld.com 0.97, dd_rescue 1.14, and regedit from regutils 0.10 were added.

0.9.0

09 Mar 2008 16:00

Changes: This release updates the whole system and all integrated programs to recent versions, and adds things like full NTFS write support (using FUSE 2.7.2 and ntfsprogs 2.0.0), lzma compressed initrd as a ramdisk, limited DVD+RW write support, and more. Support has been added for F-Prot 6.x. Support for the following network devices has been added: Intel(R) PRO/1000, Realtek 8169, and Silan SC92031 / RealTek RTL-8139 D. Support has been added for most of the serial ATA devices supportes by Linux kernel 2.4. XFS filesystem support has been added.

0.4.1

09 Jun 2005 06:27

Changes: The Linux kernel was updated to 2.4.29. Support for DECchip Tulip PCI ethernet devices was added. cmdftp was updated to 0.7.6. PCMCIA is now modular, which should solve most of the problems with newer notebooks. A new boot-option was added to boot with 80x25 and APM turned off. This should solve some problems with middle aged notebooks. getrescd.exe was updated to really work under MS-Windows XP.

0.4.0

15 Nov 2004 12:24

Changes: Support for USB mass storage (USB stick) devices was added. The Pocket Boy patch was applied. Support for DHCP IP address negotiation was added. An automatic tool (which runs under Unix/Linux and Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP) was added to download the recent versions of BG-Rescue Linux and F-Prot and create the bootable ISO image. The Linux kernel was updated to 2.4.27. busybox was updated to 1.00, gpart to 0.1h to support ReiserFS 3.6, lilo to 22.6, mdadm to 1.7.0, ntfsprogs to 1.9.4, pcmcia-cardmgr to 3.2.8, reiserfsck to 3.6.18, smbclient to 1.9.18p8 to support pipes, and syslinux to 2.11. rzip and tphdisk were added.

0.3.2

24 Jun 2004 08:34

Changes: The kernel was updated to 2.4.26 and NTFS was updated to 2.1.6b. nForce Ethernet support was added. Parts of reiserfsprogfs were replaced by the smaller progsreiserfs. The new busybox applets udhcpc and telnetd were added. progsreiserfs 0.3.0.5 was added. tar was downgraded to the version from busybox 0.60.5, which is more reliable. cloop was updated to 2.01, e2fsprogs to 1.35, lilo to 22.5.9, mdadm to 1.6.0, ms-sys to 2.0.0, ntfsprogs to 1.9.2, reiserfsck to 3.6.17, and syslinux to 2.08.