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SystemRescueCd, a Gentoo-based live CD with hard disk partitioning and data rescue utilities, has been updated to version 0.4.2.

What's new?

• Updated the kernel to Linux-2.6.23.08 with Reiser4 (rescuecd + rescue64)
• Updated the alternative kernel to Linux-2.6.22.12 with Reiser4 (vmlinuz2)
• Updated sys-fs/ntfs3g to 1.1120 (ntfs full read-write support)
• Introduced the support of the smbfs (samba) again (cifs recommended anyway)
• Disable unicode by default in the console (exec unicode_stop at startup)
• Added madwifi (support for ath5k wireless cards)
• Added extra ntfsprogs tools (ntfswipe ntfstruncate ntfsmove ntfsmftalloc)
• Added boot option: rootpass=xxx sets the root password to xxx at startup
• Added boot option: ethx=ipaddress sets the ip of all the ethernet interfaces
• Added boot option: gateway=ipaddress sets the default route
• Added boot option: dns=ipaddress sets the dns nameserver (useful for pxe)
• Fix: solved problems with accentued characters in zsh
• Fix: bug with USB keys: removed /bootdisk/ from syslinux.cfg
• Fix: autorun scripts were not executed when option docache used
• Fix: the default-route was ignored by the dhcp client on pxe booting
• Fix: the dns-server was ignored by the dhcp client on pxe booting

Download: systemrescuecd-x86-0.4.2.iso (162MB, MD5).

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